Meet Terry Fox
CBC Books | | Posted: March 31, 2020 11:56 AM | Last Updated: March 31, 2020
Elizabeth MacLeod, illustrated by Mike Deas
The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives of remarkable Canadians, whose achievements and legacies have inspired and changed the lives of those that followed them.
In Meet Terry Fox, the legendary story of how Terry Fox came to run the Marathon of Hope is chronicled: his love of sports as a child and teenager; his devastating bone cancer diagnosis; the hospital stay that inspired him to do something to raise awareness about this disease; the poignant moment he dipped his artificial leg in the waters of St. John's; and the heartbreaking moment he ended his run. This was also the moment his truly inspiring legacy began.
Written by award-winning author Elizabeth MacLeod, this portrait of Terry Fox couples simple yet compelling writing with full-colour, comic-flavoured illustrations by Mike Deas that help bring this unforgettable story to life! (From Scholastic Canada)
Toronto-based writer Elizabeth MacLeod is the author of numerous Canadian nonfiction works including the Canada Close Up series titles Canadian Government, Canada's Trees and Canadian Money in addition to the award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series and Canada Year-By-Year.
Mike Deas is a B.C.-based cartoonist, Illustrator and graphic novelist.