New Brunswick·Books & Backroads
Children at the Grand Manan Public Library read Heidi Jardine Stoddart’s Sea Glass Summer as part of Books and Backroads.
Heidi Jardine Stoddart’s book, set along Bay of Fundy, celebrates ‘magic of the ocean and the seashore’
Luke Beirne · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 15, 2025 9:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 25 minutes ago
Illustrator, author and elementary school teacher Heidi Jardine Stoddart shared her story Sea Glass Summer with children at the Grand Manan Public Library as part of the Books and Backroads series. (Submitted by Heidi Jardine Stoddart)
Heidi Jardine Stoddart’s love of stories and the shore began when she was a child, and decades later her memories of summers at her family cottage in St. Martins inspired a children’s book.
Stoddart’s book, Sea Glass Summer, is part of this year’s Books and Backroads series.
Readers in six small communities in rural areas of New Brunswick took part in book clubs in CBC’s partnership with New Brunswick public libraries — reading books from all genres and all with a connection to New Brunswick.
“I have wanted to make books since I was a young girl,” said Stoddart, who is now an elementary school teacher and an author and illustrator.
Sea Glass Summer tells the story of a young girl named Molly and her special relationship with her grandmother.
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