• Age: 6 to 8
• Grade: 1 to 3
• Reading age: 6 to 8

This biography of my father “Scrappy Jack” Thornborrow was originally written and illustrated for his 100th birthday in 2006. All the stories are based on real-life experiences Jack had told me about over the years, while I was growing up. He was hard-working and playful, a salt-of-the earth kind of guy, who had his own way of doing things. The cycle of life, as represented by wheels, became a theme for me to tell Jack’s stories. For a hundred years, from his childhood, through the decades into adulthood, he kept his playfulness and never acted his age!

Joan Steacy grew up in southern Ontario, and is a graduate of Sheridan College, The Ontario College of Art & Design University, and The University of Victoria. With her husband Ken Steacy she co-created the Comics and Graphic Novels program at Camosun College in Victoria, BC, where she taught from 2012 to 2020. Her first graphic novel Aurora Borealice: a Graphic Memoir, was published by Conundrum Press in 2019, and was listed as one of “Ten Canadian Comics to Read Right Now” by the CBC, and won the sequential magazine award for best graphic novel of 2019. Joan also produced the illustrations for a biography of our greatest canadian, titled A boy Named Tommy Douglas which is published by Midtown press as well.

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