Children's Fiction Stories In Verse
Fitch & Smith Treasury
Featuring Mabel Murple, Toes in My Nose, & There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2025
- Category
- Stories in Verse, Imagination & Play
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781774714003
- Publish Date
- Jun 2025
- List Price
- $22.95
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Where to buy it
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 4 to 9
- Grade: p to 4
Description
A beautiful collector's edition of three Sheree Fitch-tastic tales with illustrations from Hans Christian Andersen Award?winning illustrator Sydney Smith.
What if there was a purple planet with purple people on it?
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I stuck my toes / In my nose / And I couldn't get them out
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There were monkeys in my kitchen / They were climbing / Up the walls
In a lovely hardcover edition bursting with vibrant colour, The Fitch & Smith Treasury presents the time-tested, rollicking rhyming books from Canada's Dr. Seuss and illustrated by Hans Christian Andersen Award?winning illustrator Sydney Smith, Mabel Murple, Toes in My Nose, and There Were Monkey's in My Kitchen, to a whole new generation.
Mabel Murple
A zany tongue-twister of a poem featuring Mabel Murple, a daredevil who rides a purple motorbike through purple puddles, skis on purple snow, and pours purple maple syrup on her pancakes. Winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature.
Toes in My Nose
Silly, funny, and outrageous, this is the book that launched Sheree Fitch's career as Canada's premier nonsense poet. From Popcorn Pete and Mabel Murple to Zelba Zinnamon, these are some of the best-loved poems and characters in Canadian children's literature. Winner of the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award for English Fiction.
There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen (first published 1992)
Willa Wellowby's house has been overrun by monkeys. They're ballet dancing, playing the bagpipes, listening to the Beatles, and causing mayhem and destruction all over. And the more Willa asks them to leave, the more havoc they wreak. Winner of the Canadian Children's Book Centre Mr. Christie Award for Best Canadian Children's book.
About the authors
Sheree Fitch's first two books, Toes in My Nose (1987) and Sleeping Dragons All Around (1989), launched her career as a poet, rhymster, and a “kind of Canadian female Dr. Seuss.” Fitch has won almost every major award for Canadian childrenÕs literature since then, including the 2000 Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work Inspirational to Canadian Children. She has over twenty-five books to her credit, including her bestselling and critically praised adult novel, Kiss the Joy as it Flies (2008). Fitch's home base is the East Coast of Canada.
Visit her at: shereefitch.com
Sydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia and has been drawing from an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated multiple children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson, which won a Governor General’s Award, was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book and has been long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is also the illustrator of Grant and Tillie Go Walking by Monica Kulling and The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart, both highly acclaimed. Sydney has received a number of other awards for his illustrations, including the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. He now lives in Toronto and works in a shared studio space in Chinatown.
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