This beautiful picture book depicts a family's fun-filled day at a Prince Edward Island beach. Racing past dunes, building sand castles, and singing songs by a bonfire at night, the family revels in the peaceful beauty of an Island beach. Lennie Gallant's lyrical description of a PEI summer day is matched perfectly with Patsy MacKinnon's sun-soaked illustrations. A Day with You in Paradise is based on Lennie's song of the same name from the Juno-nominated album When We Get There.

Lennie Gallant is a native of the Acadian village of Rustico, Prince Edward Island. This prolific songwriter has recorded ten albums (eight in English and two in French), which have won him a host of awards and nominations from the JUNOs, the East Coast Music Awards, and Les Prix Eloizes. He has toured extensively, performing his music in many parts of the world, and even saw one of his albums go up to the international space station aboard the shuttle Endeavour with Canadian astronaut Julie Payette. He has been named to The Order of Canada, where it was said, "Gallant has garnered much respect for his songs which chronicle the lives of people dealing with tremendous adversity, and also celebrate the beauty of the East Coast lifestyle and landscape with their strong poetry and stirring narratives." Lennie has had his songs recorded by many artists and they have been featured in films, stage productions, and on television. He has long dreamed of working in collaboration with his sister Karen and is excited to be releasing this book with her.

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Patsy MacKinnon is the illustrator of Heartsong and The Village of Wood Duck. A member of the prestigious Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Patsy lives in New Waterford, Nova Scotia.

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• Short-listed, Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration