Flannery (23 page)

Acknowledgments

I am deeply indebted to Sheila Barry, Melanie Little, Cindy Ma, Sarah MacLachlan, Laura Meyer and Shelley Tanaka. Everybody at Groundwood and Anansi. Thank you a gazillion times for finding the best editors in the universe. And thank you for everything else that it takes to bring a book into the world, including lots of faith.

Many thanks to my magnificent friends and advisors: Bridget Canning, Eva Crocker, Steve Crocker, Theo Crocker, Holly Hogan, Mary Lewis, Nan Love, Sally Mathews, Larry Mathews, Elizabeth Moore, Lynn Moore, Rachel Moore and Claire Wilkshire. You guys with your eagle eyes and hammering hearts, you are golden.

About the Author

Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of
February
 — longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the winner of Canada Reads and selected as one of
The New Yorker
's Best Books of the Year. Her novel
Alligator
was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Fiction Prize (Canada and the Caribbean). She is a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, most recently for her novel
Caught
, which was a national bestseller.
Flannery
is her first book for young readers.

Lisa has written for
The Globe and Mail
,
Canadian Art
,
National Post
,
Elle
and
The Guardian
, and her work has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Russian, German, Turkish and French. She teaches creative writing at Memorial University and lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.

About the Publisher

Groundwood Books, established in 1978, is dedicated to the production of children's books for all ages, including fiction, picture books and non-fiction. We publish in Canada, the United States and Latin America. Our books aim to be of the highest possible quality in both language and illustration. Our primary focus has been on works by Canadians, though we sometimes also buy outstanding books from other countries.

Many of our books tell the stories of people whose voices are not always heard in this age of global publishing by media conglomerates. Books by the First Peoples of this hemisphere have always been a special interest, as have those of others who through circumstance have been marginalized and whose contribution to our society is not always visible. Since 1998 we have been publishing works by people of Latin American origin living in the Americas both in English and in Spanish under our Libros Tigrillo imprint.

We believe that by reflecting intensely individual experiences, our books are of universal interest. The fact that our authors are published around the world attests to this and to their quality. Even more important, our books are read and loved by children all over the globe.