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Jane Barclay


Award-winning author Jane Barclay is a tea-drinking, dog-walking, house-cleaning, lawn-cutting, short-order cook and writer. Besides writing books for children, she also does freelance work and her articles have appeared in both The Gazette and The National Post. Jane lives with her husband in Pointe Claire, Quebec. Their three sons occasionally drop in to pat the dog and visit the fridge.

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Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion
Written by Jane Barclay
Illustrated by Renne Benoit

Hardcover | 24 pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Historical - Military & Wars; Juvenile Fiction - Family - Multigenerational
978-0-88776-951-1 (0-88776-951-9)

September 22, 2009 | $20.99

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Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion
Written by Jane Barclay, Illustrated by Renne Benoit

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780887769511
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Much has been written about war and remembrance, but very little of it has been for young children. As questions come from a young grandchild, his grandpa talks about how, as a very young man, he was as proud as a peacock in uniform, busy as a beaver on his Atlantic...