Babble by Caroline Adderson

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Babble by Caroline Adderson

A village is torn apart by its residents' inability to communicate, until a little girl shares the gift of punctuation in this humourous illustrated parable.

Chaos reigns in the village of Babble All day, the residents fight, yell and argue, and no one is heard or understood . . . until a mysterious little girl arrives and gives the locals something very strange: a period. But what is this thing that looks like a freckle or a spot? The villagers don't even know how to ask. However, as the girl begins to share more gifts -- a question mark, quotation marks -- the residents slowly learn how to communicate. But when more fights arise and disaster strikes, can punctuation truly save the day?

Caroline Adderson is the author of several award-winning books for adults as well as for children. Her works of adult fiction (Bad Imaginings, A History of Forgetting, Pleased to Meet You and The Sky Is Falling) have been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is a three-time CBC Literary Award winner, two-time winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and recipient of the 2006 Marian Engel Award for her body of work.

Adderson's children's books include I, Bruno (nominated for the Chocolate Lily and Shining Willow book awards), Very Serious Children (winner of the Diamond Willow Award and shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award) and Jasper John Dooley (Spring 2012, Kids Can).

She lives in Vancouver with her husband, filmmaker Bruce Sweeney, and their son, Patrick.

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ISBN 13	9780735265837
ISBN 10	0735265836
Title	Babble
Author	Caroline Adderson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Prentice Hall Press
Year published	2022-10-25
Number of pages	72
Prizes	Short-listed for The Joan Betty Stuchner - Oy Vey! - Funniest Children's Book Award 2023
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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