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Fanny Britt.

Writer · Canada

Fanny Britt: Governor General's Award-winning Quebecois writer of Jane, the Fox and Me, a tender, beautiful graphic novel about bullying and the power of stories, for ages 10 to 14.

Fanny Britt is a Quebecois playwright, novelist and translator whose graphic novel Jane, the Fox and Me, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, is a modern classic of children's comics. It follows Helene, quietly cast out and bullied by her former friends, who finds refuge in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, a wild fox and, at last, a real friendship, as Arsenault's muted greys blossom into colour with Helene's returning hope. Emotionally truthful and visually stunning, it is a tender, unflinching story about loneliness, body image and the redemptive power of stories, best suited to readers aged 10 to 14. A Governor General's Award-winning writer, Britt brings a playwright's precision and compassion to the interior life of a hurting child.