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Tinkler's Quest is a spellbinding journey through magical storytelling paintings, weaving together art and poetry to inspire a deep connection with nature. Each richly layered image unlocks hidden stories, sparks memories, and invites readers of all ages to reflect on their role in protecting the world around them.
Born from the community-driven spirit of Stow Stories, this book draws from the historic Tinkler's Meadow in Stowmarket, Suffolk, where a love for the land ignited a movement. Now, Tinkler's Quest carries that vision forward - across rivers, land, sea, and sand - celebrating nature's beauty, wildness, and healing power. Through words, art, and creativity, this book reminds us that every story told and every action taken, no matter how small, helps weave a future where the world is wilder, richer, and more alive.
Judith Thompson
Judith Thompson is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and a professor of theatre studies at the University of Guelph. She has twice won the Governor General's Award, for the play White Biting Dog (1984) and the collection of plays The Other Side of the Dark (1989), and has been recognized with many other awards including the Order of Canada, the Walter Carsen Performing Arts Award, the Toronto Arts Award, the Epilepsy Ontario Award, several Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Floyd S. Chalmers Award for the plays I Am Yours (1987) and Lion in the Streets (1991), the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, the B'nai B'rith Award, and many others. Her plays have been produced in many countries and translated into several languages. In 2008, she was the first Canadian to receive the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She has received honorary doctorates from Thorneloe University in Sudbury, Ontario, and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Born in Montréal, she now lives in Toronto. In Crow's Field is her first novel.
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