Fanny Britt is a playwright, author and translator. She has a dozen plays to her credit. She has also translated over fifteen contemporary plays and several other works of literature. She writes children s books and has published, among others, the Felicien series with La Courte Echelle. Jane, the Fox and Me is her first graphic novel. She lives in Montreal with her family. Isabelle Arsenault is a very talented Quebec illustrator, who has garnered an impressive number of awards and international recognition. She has illustrated several books, including Le coeur de monsieur Gauguin (Governor General s Award) and My Letter to the World and Other Poems (Governor General s Award Finalist, IRA Children s Choices), and she has won the Grand Prix for illustration (Magazines du Quebec) for six years running.
A New York Times Best Illustrated BookWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration in FrenchA Globe and Mail Best BookA New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing Loneliness is a language that doesn't need translation....It's a language understood by anyone who has endured the interminable wait for a Geraldine of her own. -- The New York Times Readers will be delighted to see Helene's world change as she grows up, learning to ignore the mean girls and realizing that, like Jane, she is worthy of friendship and love. -- School Library Journal , Starred Review Helene's emotional tangle is given poignant expression through Arsenault's pitch-perfect mixed-media art . . . [Her] story is sweetly comforting and compelling. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books , Starred Review