N.S. news: Local author publishes children’s book on Halifax [Video]

Joanne Abrahams has spent years crafting a children’s book highlighting local landmarks around the Halifax Regional Municipality, taking readers on a poetic journey. Now the book is on shelves at locally owned stores around the Halifax-area.

“I walked the streets and I’ve just fallen in love with the city,” said Abrahams. “I’ve been here for 40 years. My husband and I moved here in the late 70s and I wanted the world to know about our municipality.”

The book features a two-in-one format that invites readers to flip it midway through and read a story on the other side.

“They’re bound together as one. The first side is poems called ‘Round and Round the Roundabout’ and the other is called ‘Don’t Roll Down Citadel Hill’ and the story is of me telling my granddaughters not to roll down Citadel and I say to them if you ever [and] want to …