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A discussion of the childhood and life of a writer, and how childhood imagination and experiences with books and play lead to storytelling and writing fiction; with learning aids such as playing cards, book postcards, books that were the author's childhood favorites and that influenced her later work. A discussion of writing from a young immigrant female's point of view, and how the author's personal and family history with immigration has impacted the creation of her young protagonist, Clara Swift. A discussion of telling Canadian history through the lens of a young female immigrant, and how young girls experienced the immigrant experience in the mid-late 19th century and in the mid-20th century.