Pendziwol’s debut adult novel, “The Lightkeeper’s Daughters,” was a Globe and Mail best-seller, short-listed for the HWA Debut Crown, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club selection and winner of the Northern Lit Award. Her best-selling picture book, “No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons),” was selected by McDonald’s restaurants for its Happy Meal literacy program and continues to be used to teach fire safety in a number of countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. Pendziwol is the author of more than 10 critically acclaimed books for children, including “Once Upon a Northern Night,” a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and “I Found Hope in a Cherry Tree,” a 2020 (Toronto) Globe and Mail-recommended book. The committee and an area resident are also providing special programming for “Me and You and the Red Canoe.” Thanks to a generous donor, Two Books, Two Communities is providing every first- through third-grade classroom in Marquette and Alger counties with a copy of “Me and You and the Red Canoe.” Girl Scouts are reading it to senior citizens and Pendziwol will host story workshops in children’s classrooms. Two Books, Two Communities’ purpose, according to NMU, is to share the “joy of reading, the life of the mind and the free exchange of ideas through a common book.” A goal of the program is to foster a sense of community by bringing NMU and the readers of Marquette and Alger counties together.
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