As a third generation Vancouverite, Valerie Rolfe Lupini fled the city to raise her family on Bowen and Vancouver islands. After the birth of her second son came the publication of her first book There Goes the Neighbourhood, followed by a decade of mothering and homeschooling. After that she wrote her second book, The Whistle, though fiction, developed after she delved into her family's colorfull homesteading history.
"The success . . . is due to the sober, carefully observed
portraits of the children and their cultural differences." --Books
in Canada "A powerful, thought-provoking story that handles
discrimination, compromise, uprooting and friendship meaningfully .
. . It is also lively and entertaining." --Kliatt
"The success . . . is due to the sober, carefully observed
portraits of the children and their cultural differences."
--"Books in Canada"
"A powerful, thought-provoking story that handles discrimination,
compromise, uprooting and friendship meaningfully . . . It is also
lively and entertaining."
--"Kliatt"
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