Colin McKim pens brand-new kids’s book including Steph Dunn’s watercolours in a poetic story where ‘innocence clashes with experience’
Popular regional vocalist and artist Steph Dunn has actually turned her hand to illustration with “amazing” outcomes.
Her “bewitching” watercolours in Colin McKim’s brand-new kids’s book, The Kitten and the Chicken, jazz up the whimsical and heartfelt tale of the kitten and chicken who cohabit in an old Fargo truck.
” She has a genuine present,” states McKim. ” Her paintings are much better than I might have envisioned.”
In the story, innocence clashes with experience as the kitten and chicken each have an experience filled with danger followed by a tender homecoming.
” As quickly as I check out Colin’s poem, I might visualize these cute characters in my mind,” states Dunn, who teaches art and music at Georgian Bay District Secondary School.
Action has actually been extremely favorable with lots of individuals currently asking for copies for kids and grandchildren as Christmas methods, stated McKim, whose story was motivated by the old Fargo truck parked at Grant’s Woods, a popular forest path off Department Roadway in Orillia.
For more than twenty years McKim worked as a reporter at 3 Orillia papers.
As a writer, he was understood for his unusual humour, as soon as proposing that members of council be live-trapped and launched in Northern Ontario.
In 2021, McKim launched The Longest Mustache in St. John and Other Poems, a marvel of the creativity, loaded with zany characters who would be right in your home in the pages of Alice in Wonderland
Copies of McKim’s brand-new book are $20, plus $4 for postage. To purchase e-mail [email protected].
