“Bindu goes on a long trip

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Bernadette Mertens-McAllister wrote the book “Bindu goes on a long trip” for her grandchild Tessa.

One day as the author was traveling from Canada to Mexico, she found Bindu in a toy store.  The idea came to her to make a book of that long trip that the teddy will have to make to reach the home of little Tessa in Québec. All of the images have been photographed on site while traveling.

This volume is in English with a Spanish translation at the back.  There is also a French version with English translation at the back. Both are available at http://www.blurb.com

About the author

Bernadette Mertens-McAllister was born in Switzerland of Belgium parents. She started her artistic career after obtaining a diploma of Applied Arts in Brussels. As a young photographer she traveled extensively in the Canadian Arctic before settling in British Columbia. As a French immersion teacher she discovered the joy of writing and story telling. As an artist she now combines her photography with acrylics to create a wealth of multi media paintings. Bernadette’s studio is a beautifully restored old log barn at Twin Creeks Ranch where she lives with her husband. They spend the winter in Alamos, a colonial village in Southern Sonora, Mexico.