In 1914, Tom Thomson spent the summer at a family cottage on Lake Huron s Georgian Bay, where he taught the ten-year-old daughter, Helen, how to paint. Author Susan Vande Griek and illustrator Pascal Milelli have imagined this time through Helen s eyes, providing an intriguing glimpse into the famous painter s life.
Helen and her father greet their visitor on the rocks of West Wind Island. She is fascinated by everything about him his canoe full of gear, his paint-stained hands, his campfire stew. Over the next few days she watches as Tom paddles off to fish and clambers over the rocks to...