Forever Truffle
Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault are back with a new graphic novel, this time featuring Truffle, younger brother, best friend, aspiring rockstar ...
Meet Truffle in three linked stories:
In "Truffle the Rockstar," Truffle wants to form a band with his best friends Flo and Riad. They can already picture themselves on stage, wowing the crowd with epic songs. They still have to learn how to play instruments ... but that's just a minor detail!
Ever since Truffle asked Nina to be his girlfriend, they have been shy around each other. In "Truffle Loves Nina," Truffle asks his parents, his friend Riad, his big brother, Louis, and the man who works at the library, for advice on how to let his heart do the talking.
In "Truffle Tackles Existence," Truffle attends his great-grandmother's funeral, which gets him thinking about the world around him. Are grandparents young once, too? Does Rocket, the dog that his family had to give up, still think about him sometimes? Do people stop loving each other if they don't see each other anymore?
Fans of Louis Undercover will be delighted that Truffle -- Louis's funny, music-loving little brother -- now has his own book!
Key Text Features
comic
comic strips
illustrations
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.9
Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
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FANNY BRITT is a playwright, novelist and translator. She collaborated with Isabelle Arsenault on two previous graphic novels: Jane, the Fox and Me, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration (French) and the Joe Shuster Award for Best Writer and for Best Artist, and Louis Undercover. Her other award-winning works include the play Bienvaillance and her first novel, Les maisons (published in English as Hunting Houses). Fanny lives in Montreal, Quebec, with her husband and two sons.
ISABELLE ARSENAULT est une talentueuse illustratrice québécoise de renommée internationale qui a remporté un nombre impressionnant de récompenses. Elle a illustré plusieurs livres, dont Le Coeur de monsieur Gauguin (Prix du Gouverneur général), et elle a obtenu le Grand Prix de l'illustration (Magazines du Québec) pendant six années consécutives.
ISABELLE ARSENAULT has achieved international recognition for her work and won many awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award (three times!). She is the author-illustrator of Alpha and the illustrator of Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, as well as Once Upon a Northern Night (Par une belle nuit d'hiver) by Jean E. Pendziwol. Isabelle lives in Montreal.Susan Ouriou is an award-winning fiction writer and literary translator with over sixty translations and co-translations of fiction, non-fiction, children's and young adult literature to her credit. She has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation for which she has also been shortlisted on five other occasions. Susan lives in Calgary, Alberta.
