Ian Wallace

The Huron Carol Ian Wallace Second edition

Brief Description: Renowned children's book illustrator Ian Wallace brings his masterful ability to paint landscape and his cultural sensitivity to "The Huron Carol," a beautiful and unusual song with a rich history. In the early 1600s Father Jean de Brebeuf came to Canada from his native France as a Jesuit missionary. He settled among the Huron, or Ouendat, people in what is now Midland, Ontario. Despite his missionary zeal, Brebeuf was sensitive to the people with whom he lived. He learned their language and he wrote, in Huron, the original version of this famous Christmas carol. He and his fellow priests, called Black Robes, and many of their Huron parishioners were killed in an Iroquois raid in 1649. But Brebeuf's carol continued to be sung by successive generations of Hurons. Then in 1926, Toronto writer Jesse Edgar Middleton, inspired by Brebeuf, wrote his own version of the carol in English. His are the familiar words we sing today, describing the Huron landscape, flora and fauna in telling the Christmas story. Ian Wallace's luminous illustrations, set against the dramatic backdrop of Georgian Bay, make this a stunning Christmas gift book. Multilingual versions of the text, the music and a full description of how this carol has come down to us today are included. Biographical Note: Ian Wallace has had a long and distinguished career as an author and illustrator of picture books, publishing many classics such as "Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance," "Boy of the Deeps," "The Name of the Tree," "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" and "Just So Stories" (forthcoming from Groundwood). He has won the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award, the Mr. Christie's Book Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. He has also been nominated for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Ian currently lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife, Deb.

Contributor Bio:  Wallace, Ian Ian Wallace, graduated with a degree in psychology, and has analyzed over 170,000 dreams for his clients during his professional career. Wallace is the originator of the Dream Connection Process, a unique and powerful method that enables anyone to connect the imagery and symbolism that they create in their dreams to situations and opportunities in waking life where they can use this awareness to make a healthy difference. Wallace regularly appears on television, on radio and in print, where is consistently applauded for his accuracy and his authority in analyzing dreams.