Wake Up, Island

About Mary Casanova

Mary Casanova grew up in a camp-like atmosphere on the edge of St. Paul with parents who regularly packed the station wagon to capacityten kids and the family dogand headed up north to a cabin. Mary is the author of One-Dog Canoe and thirty other books. Several of themincluding Moose Tracks Wolf Shadows When Eagles Fall and most recently Frozenare published by the University of Minnesota Press. These books frequently found on state reading lists across the country have earned countless awards such as the ALA Notable Parents Choice Gold Award Booklist Editors Choice and two Minnesota Book Awards. She lives with her husband and three dogs in a turn-of-the-century house in Ranier Minnesota. Nick Wroblewski is an artist and printmaker specializing in handmade woodcut block prints. He prints from his home studio in the Driftless region of Wisconsin. A native of Minnesota he enjoyed reflecting on a landscape very close to his heart while illustrating this book.