Matt James
Matt James is a noted painter, illustrator and musician. His first picture book, Yellow Moon, Apple Moon by Pamela Porter, won the New Mexico Book Award and was a finalist for a Governor General's Award. I Know Here by Laurel Croza won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. Matt lives in Toronto.
I Know Here
Winner of the 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the 2011 Ezra Jack Keats and New York Public Library New Writer Award, and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration
The little girl in this story lives with her family in a trailer in northeastern Saskatchewan, where her fathe …
I Know Here
The little girl in this story lives in a trailer near a forest in Saskatchewan, where her father is building a dam. She knows and loves everything about the place, but the dam is nearly finished, and when summer comes the family will move to Toronto - a city marked by a big red star on the map at school.
“Have the people in Toronto seen what I've …
Misrecognized Materialists
A book with provocative implications for students and scholars ofsocial movements and identity politics, MisrecognizedMaterialists offers a fresh and important perspective onCanada’s constitutional struggles over civic symbolism andidentity.
Misrecognized Materialists
A book with provocative implications for students and scholars ofsocial movements and identity politics, MisrecognizedMaterialists offers a fresh and important perspective onCanada’s constitutional struggles over civic symbolism andidentity.
Northwest Passage
Award-winning artist Matt James takes the iconic song “Northwest Passage” by legendary Canadian songwriter and singer Stan Rogers and tells the dramatic story of the search for the elusive route through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific, which for hundreds of years and once again today, nations, explorers and commercial interests have dreamt of c …
Yellow Moon, Apple Moon
Finalist for the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration
In this delightful bedtime rhyme a young child bids good night to the moon, recalling all the familiar things surrounding her -- from her pillow, her book and her kitten to the swing outside, the robins in the trees and the starry night.
Written by award-winning novelist and poet P …
