While strolling to her grandmother's house with a basket of treats, Emily is approached by a number of rude animals who demand her goods, but Emily doesn't like their brutish requests and so teaches them a lesson by changing them to flowers with the wave of her magic wand. Simultaneous.
Colleen Sydor was born in Winnipeg and currently makes the city her home. A graduate of the University of Manitoba, she is not only a writer, she also works as a florist. In the last ten years she has won the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award three times.