{"id":524,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/janice-poon\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T23:13:02","slug":"poon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/poon\/","title":{"rendered":"Janice Poon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janice Poon is a graphic designer, painter, sculptor and writer living in Toronto, Ontario. She has co-authored a couple of cookbooks, one of which she also designed and illustrated. Her work as a food stylist for the NBC show Hannibal<\/em> led to the publication of her book Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur’s Cookbook\u00a0<\/em>(Titan Books) in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction (Graphic Novel)<\/h3>\n

Claire and the Bakery Thief<\/h3>\n

Written and illustrated by Janice Poon
\nToronto: Kids Can Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Claire has moved to the country, where her parents have opened an organic bakery. Although Claire says she’d rather move to Mars, she soon falls in love with her pretty bedroom and their big creaky house. Claire hardly thinks about the city any more after she and her dog, Bongo, discover the natural wonders in the surrounding woods. And Claire has made a “best friend forever” – the brave and headstrong Jet.
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Fiction (Graphic Novel)<\/h3>\n

Claire and the Water Wish<\/h3>\n

Written and illustrated by Janice Poon
\nToronto: Kids Can Press, 2009.<\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Tired of [her best friend] Jet\u2019s antics, Claire strikes up a friendship with Sky, a girl from the local Lovesick Lake community. She learns that the water in Sky\u2019s lake is undrinkable. The community suspects someone\u2019s been secretly dumping waste in it for years. But when the three friends stumble across the polluters\u2019 trail, will they be able to put their differences aside in time to save Lovesick Lake?
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Publisher Kids Can Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Janice Poon’s personal website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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