How To
This imaginative ehow to' book explores whimsical ways of doing a host of different tasks, including ehow to wonder', ehow to see the breeze', and ehow to be brave'. With evocative text and images by award-winning illustrator Julie Morstad, this book will bring wonder into the lives of all ages.
Milk Teeth
Vancouver artist Julie Morstad spins fairy tales infused with dream-like innocence and a touch of the macabre, a universe populated by animals, flowers, peculiar objects, and disembodied heads. Morstad's work has been shown in galleries, featured on the cover of Neko Case's album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and developed into a line of patterned …
Singing Away the Dark
On a dark winter's morning a little girl has to trudge a mile to catch the school bus. Will shebe able to sing her way through the shadows? Lilting rhyming text by Caroline Woodward and stunning paintings by Julie Morstad herald an era when singing away the dark was part of a six-year-old's rural school-going routine."This quietly stunning tale emp …
The Wayside
Julie Morstad has long excelled at illustration, often working in tandem with children's writers, but in The Wayside, the storytelling potential of her fantastical pictures is fully realized. Within these pages Morstad's worlds unite, maintaining their ethereal, almost fairy-tale beauty and yet also offering a loose overarching synthesis through th …
Think Again
Make sure that your heart Isn't too well-defended. Your heart is designed To be broken and mended. -- "The Heart" These quietly beautiful and surprisingly humorous four-line poems reveal the many aspects of first love -- the longing, the frustration and the joy. The poet writes not from a single point of view but instead embraces the duality of fir …
When I Was Small
Curious little Henry from the award-winning books When You Were Small and Where You Came From has a new question for his mother in this charming new picture book. "What was it like when you were small?" he asks. His mother proceeds to describe her adventures to him, all about when she was little, very little!
When You Were Small
All children like to hear stories about when they were small. In this charming picture book by Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad, a young boy and his father reminisce together before bedtime. For chidren there is a whole period of their life that they can not remember and, for all they know, it could have been the most magical time of their life.
Where You Came From
In the sequel to the acclaimed picture book When You Were Small, curious little Henry has a new question for his parents: "Where did I come from?" His parents, trying to remember, come up with many hilarious, imaginative and whimsical answers.
