Elizabeth Cleaver Knihy

Retells the story of the ballet, itself based on a Russian folk tale, in which a puppet with a soul tries to win the love of a ballerina during a Shrovetide fair.

According to Canadian Indian legend, when an old man's sight was restored by a Loon he gave the bird his precious shell necklace as a reward. That is why the loon has a white collar and speckles on its back.Elizabeth Cleaver's rich and beautiful style of picture-making gives new visual excitement to the splendors of the British Columbia landscape, and to the magic of this Indian legend.