Yuck, a Love Story by Don Gillmer

Yuck, a Love Story by Don Gillmer

Winner of the 2000 Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration

Finalist for the CBA Illustrator of the Year Award

Austin Grouper had a brown dog named Fresco, a best friend named Sternberg, and a red bicycle. His life was full. And then a girl named Amy moves in next door. Austin decides that she, like all girls, is yucky. But when the invitation to her birthday party arrives, it seems the only suitable present for Amy is the moon itself, and Austin is prepared to go to the ends of the earth to get it.

Yuck, a Love Story will strike a familiar chord with anyone who has survived that earth-shattering first crush, and is written with the wit and wisdom of one who has been to the moon and back. Marie-Louise Gay's charming illustrations express a youthful innocence that matches the text perfectly.

EVERETTE E. DENNIS is Executive Director of the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University and Editor-in-Chief of the Gannett Center Journal. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books including The Cost of Libel, Reshaping the Media, Understanding Mass Communication, and the First Amendment. He has also written more than 80 articles in professional journals, law reviews, and industry publications and is frequently quoted in the popular media about communication issues.

DONALD M. GILLMOR is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and Director, Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He wrote or edited Free Press and Trial, Mass Communication Law, Enduring Issues in Mass Communication and Justice Hugo Black and the First Amendment. Gillmor has also written numerous book chapters and articles published in Journalism Quarterly, Journal of Media Law and Practice, Media Information Australia, Current History, and law reviews.

THEODORE L. GLASSER is on the faculty of the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University and Associate Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota. His articles have appeared in a variety of academic and professional publications, including Journalism Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Communications and the Law, Policy Sciences, Nieman Reports, and The Quill.