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See below for English description. Voici Clara Hughes: athlete, medaillee olympique et militante pour la sante mentale. Encore aujourd'hui, Clara est la seule personne au monde a avoir remporte plusieurs medailles aux Jeux olympiques d'ete et d'hiver. Mais sa plus grande reussite est sans aucun doute le travail qu'elle a accompli pour aider les autres. Clara, qui a grandi a Winnipeg, a toujours aime les sports. Elle n'a pas toujours ete une athlete de haut niveau. Elle se trouvait meme sur une mauvaise pente jusqu'au jour fatidique ou elle a regarde le patineur de vitesse Gaetan Boucher, a la television, participer aux Jeux d'hiver de 1988. Clara a alors decide qu'elle ferait la meme chose. Cette decision a change sa vie et l'a conduite a s'entrainer, a concourir et a gagner au niveau olympique dans pas moins de deux sports. Mais alors que le pays tout entier applaudissait ses exploits, Clara ne se sentait pas bien en son for interieur. Elle a finalement realise que gagner toutes les medailles du monde ne lui permettrait pas d'aller mieux: elle devait consacrer autant d'efforts a sa sante mentale qu'a son entrainement. Les jeunes lecteurs decouvriront la vie exemplaire de Clara Hughes et comment elle a appris non seulement a prendre soin d'elle, mais aussi a encourager les autres a faire de meme. Meet Clara Hughes -- athlete, Olympic medalist and mental health advocate. Clara is still the only person in the world to ever win multiple medals at both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. But perhaps her biggest accomplishment is the work she has done to help others. Growing up in Winnipeg, Clara liked sports. She wasn't a top athlete and was headed down a bad path until the fateful day she watched speed skater Gaetan Boucher compete at the 1988 Winter Games. Clara decided she would do that too. It was to be a life-changing decision, one that set her on a course of training, competing and winning at the Olympic level in not just one but TWO sports. But as the world was cheering her on, Clara didn't feel right inside. She finally realized that winning all the medals in the world wouldn't make her okay -- she had to work as hard on her mental health as she did on her training. Maybe even harder. Young readers will get the inside story of Clara Hughes's inspiring life and how she learned to not only take care of herself, but to inspire others to do the same. Original title: Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Clara Hughes

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ELIZABETH MACLEOD a ete redactrice pour le magazine OWL pour ensuite ecrire de nombreux ouvrages pour enfants. Elle est l'auteure de l'album Bunny, cheval de guerre; du livre documentaire Canada en vedette et des livres de la collection Biographie en images. Elizabeth vit a Toronto. ELIZABETH MACLEOD is the author of many Canadian nonfiction titles, including the Canada Close Up (Canada en vedette) series titles Canada's Trees and Canadian Money in addition to the award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography (Biographie en images) series and Canada Year-By-Year. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and enjoys reading, swimming, theatre, botany and tap dancing. MIKE DEAS est auteur-illustrateur de bandes dessinees. Il signe aussi les illustrations de la serie Biographie en images. Sa passion pour l'illustration a ete entretenue tout au long de son enfance a l'ile Saltspring, en Colombie-Britannique ou il habite encore aujourd'hui. MIKE DEAS is the illustrator of the Sueno Bay Adventures series, the Graphic Guide Adventure series and the Tank and Fizz books, as well as the titles in the Scholastic Canada Biography (Biographie en images) series. His love for illustrative storytelling comes from an early love of reading and drawing while growing up on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Visit him online at www.deasillustration.com.

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