• Age: 3 to 8
• Grade: p to 3

Orange Kitty and the Mouse Parade is a vibrantly illustrated, counting and rhyming picture book about an orange cat that sleeps soundly while fifty-five parading mice, tumble out from a "little blue door just an inch from the floor."

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Elizabeth (E.M.) Gales is a children's author and illustrator living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After spending twenty years working with seniors, creating daily art, music, and dance programs, she decided to retire early to work on passion projects that had been on the back burner. She studied art at community colleges, the University of British Columbia, and The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. After almost a year in the fine arts program, life sent her in another direction. Several years later a move from BC to Nova Scotia allowed her to finally focus on her lifelong dream of becoming an author/illustrator. The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) helped her on that journey. Along with writing and illustrating, Elizabeth loves gardening, walks by the ocean, the wind, and cold, cozy sweater weather. Her illustrations utilize pen and ink, colored ink, watercolour, and acrylic as well as digital art.

Orange Kitty and the Mouse Parade teaches children about numbers while telling a wonderfully imaginative story. What tumbles out from “the little blue door just an inch from the floor” is pure delight, as playful as the mice themselves. This book is a real treasure for every reader! Anne Simpson, Author Speechless