FISHING WITH GUBBY

FISHING WITH GUBBY Fishing with Gubby is the marvelously illustrated, authentic account of one season in the life of a salmon fisherman. Based on actual events, the story is told by award-winning childrens illustrator Kim La Fave & former fisherman Gary Kent. Together they make the wharfs, boats, fishermen & villages of the BC coast come alive with remarkable detail & humor.Gubby is a salmon fisherman who lives with his wife Millie & cat Puss in a small seaside village on the west coast of British Columbia. He keeps his boat, the Floundera 36-foot west coast salmon trollerat a local wharf with many other boats.Gubbys journey first takes him up BCs west coast, through Georgia, Johnstone & Queen Charlotte straits & north past Port Hardy. He then heads into the open ocean towards treacherous Cape Scott, through to Winter Harbour & Quatsino Sound to settle in for a summer of fishing. Gubby & Puss face rolling rapids, rough & tumble storms & banks of fog, tussle with a basking shark & a pod of orcas, all while trolling for spring & coho salmon & visiting other fishermen & homesteaders along the way.Part graphic novel & part ocean adventure story in the style of Raymond Briggs, Fishing with Gubby not only depicts the salty BC coast, it captures the vanishing golden age when fishing was more than just a jobit was a way of life.ABOUT THE AUTHORS:Gary Kent grew up in Vancouver & received his BA from the University of British Columbia. He was a commercial fisherman & salmon troller for nine years & is now a furniture maker & instructor at the Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking. He lives in Roberts Creek, BC.Kim La Fave, a Governor Generals Award-winning artist, is the illustrator of Amoss Sweater (by Janet Lunn) winner of the Ruth Schwartz Childrens Book Award & the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for illustration Follow That Star (by Kenneth Oppel), I Am Small (by Cherrie Fitch), the bestselling The Bones & Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa) & many other childrens books. He lives in Roberts Creek, BC. ISBN: 1-55017-497-5 publish date: 08/31/2010