Alison Lohans
alisonlohans@books4kids.ca
About the photo on the right
(Alison says...) When I was in grade 4, I loved reading author Astrid Lindgren's books, particularly her Pippi Longstocking novels. They were originally written in Swedish, and became a great hit in North America after they'd been translated into English. In the summer of 2005, our family took a Baltic cruise, which included one day in Stockholm. This photo is of me posing with Astrid Lindgren's statue, outside a children's museum there.
Germy Johnson
Germy Johnson's Secret Plan was published by Scholastic in 1992 and was widely used in
Grade 3 classrooms across Canada. When it went out of print and Alison kept getting requests
for it, she decided to re-issue it. The new edition was released by eamWORKS Publishing in 2008,
with new artwork by A.E. Matheson of Saskatoon. At the book launch at Regina's Book and Brier Patch,
Alison and A.E. gave door prizes. Each lucky winner received a copy of the new
Germy Johnson's Secret Plan and a germ! The one with the tentacles is an e.coli and the
round white one is a chicken pock.
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