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list price: $9.95
category: Children's Fiction
published: Oct 2002
ISBN:9781551432274
publisher:
Orca Book Publishers
list price: $9.95
category: Children's Fiction
published: Oct 2002
ISBN:9781551432274
publisher:
Orca Book Publishers
Description
"What is snow?" Araba, a Ghanaian child, asks her Canadian pen pal. The response unfolds as a letter in poetry, rich in lyricism and in what author Sheree Fitch would call "lipslipperiness." Janet Wilson's glowing pastel illustrations revel in all the sensory experiences, the color, associated with the cold white stuff. Through the asking and the telling, two children reach halfway around the world and touch one another.
About the Authors
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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
Janet Wilson is an award-winning artist and a published author, holding over 50 publishing copyrights in the children's literature field. Her awards include Best Illustrated Book in the United States in 2004 for Jasper's Day, Canadian Information Book of the Year for her artwork in In Flanders Fields, and she is the first non-native artist to be awarded the Native Reading Week Award for her illustrations in Solomon's Tree. Janet is a career artist known for her fine art commissioned portraits and still life paintings. For more information, visit www.janetwilson.ca.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age:
- 0 to 8
- Grade:
- p to 3
- Reading age:
- 4 to 8
Awards
- Short-listed, Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award nominee
- Short-listed, Pearson Canada Readers' Choice Award nominee
- Short-listed, Blue Spruce nominee
- Short-listed, CLA Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award nominee
- Commended, CCBC Our Choice
Editorial Reviews
"Fitch's poetry is full of dazzling images."
— Booklist
"The lyrical text...conjures up nostalgic sensual images of snowflakes."
"Most scenes are alive with actionespecially the tobogganers who almost zoom off the page straight into your lap."
— Resource Links
"Award-winning oil painter Janet Wilson brings the text to life with brilliantly coloured snapshots of childhood winters."
"This book has a cozy, cuddle-on-the-couch quality."
— Rockcliffe Reviews
"Children will recognize the similarities and connections between themselves and others and the differences that make each child and every culture unique."
— UNICEF Communique
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