C Is for Chinook

< I>C is for Chinook: An Alberta Alphabet.< /I> Readers young and oldcan trek the Rocky Mountains, canoe across beautiful LakeLouise, and still have energy to visit capital city Edmontonfor an Oilers game. From Big Horn Sheep to renowned doctor, Mary Percy Jackson, author Dawn Welykochy recounts thefacts, faces, and features that make Alberta unique.< P>Dawn Welykochy grew up in Calgary, Alberta; attended the University of Calgary; and recentlycompleted training to become a Montessori preschool teacher. < I>C is for Chinook< /I> is her first children'sbook. Dawn now lives on a ranch in Southern Alberta and looks forward to traveling the provinceto share this book with children and educators.< P>Lorna Bennett attended Grant MacEwan Community College and the University of Alberta inthe Arts/Fine Arts program. She has worked as a ski instructor, designer, writer, illustrator, andanimator. Her previous children's picture books include < I>Sandwiches for Duke< /I> and < I>Dot to Dotin the Sky< /I>. Lorna has toured with the Young Alberta Book Society's Chrysalis Festival, teachingart in elementary schools. She makes her home in Edmonton, Alberta.