Jillian Jiggs and the Secret Surprise
illustrated by Phoebe Gilman
- Commended, Canadian Toy Testing Council, Great Books for Children
- Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Our Choice
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Jillian Jiggs and her friends are back... and this time they're putting on a show! Jillian doesn't have any money to buy her little sister Rebecca's birthday present. Her friends Peter and Rachel remind her that the best presents are the ones that you make, so Jillian decides that they should surprise Rebecca by putting on a play. But things don't happen exactly the way she planned and Jillian winds up with a few surprises of her own!
close this panelPhoebe Gillman was one of Canada's best-loved children's author/illustrators. She wrote and illustrated such classics as Something for Nothing, The Gypsy Princess and the Jillian Jiggs series. Phoebe lived in New York, Europe and Israel and worked as an artist and teacher before settling down in Toronto, Ontario. She passed away in 2002.
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