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edition:eBook

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category: Children's Fiction

published: March 2015

ISBN:9781554988556

publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

Sidewalk Flowers

by JonArno Lawson, illustrated by Sydney Smith

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list price: $14.95

edition:eBook

also available: Hardcover

category: Children's Fiction

published: March 2015

ISBN:9781554988556

publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

Description

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Book

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year

In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter.

“Written” by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.

About the Authors

JonArno Lawson lives in Toronto. Lawson has been writing poetry for many years. He has run dozens of poetry workshops with people of all ages, and was the recipient of a Chalmer's Arts Fellowship to research lap, finger and bouncing rhymes (and games) cross-culturally. His previous Pedlar title, Black Stars in a White Night Sky, won The Lion & the Unicorn Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, 2007.

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Sydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia and has been drawing from an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated numerous children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson, which won a Governor General’s Award, among many other honours, and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book. He is also the illustrator of Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, for which he was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal, and which won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Prize. Small in the City is the first picture book that Sydney has written as well as illustrated. He lives and works in Toronto with his wife and son.

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Age:: 4 to 7
Grade:: p to 2
Reading age:: 4 to 7

Awards

Commended, IBBY Outstanding Books for People with Disabilities
Winner, National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Book Illustration
Commended, A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year
Commended, ALA Notable Children's Book
Winner, Michigan Library Association Mitten Award
Winner, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
Commended, USBBY Outstanding International Books
Short-listed, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
Commended, TD Summer Reading Club Top Recommended Reads
Short-listed, CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
Winner, Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award
Commended, National Post Best Books of the Year
Commended, Globe 100 Best Books
Winner, Cybils Award, Fiction Picture Book
Commended, NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children, Recommended Book
Winner, Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustrated Books
Long-listed, Goodreads Choice Award for Best Picture Book
Commended, New York Public Library Best 100 Books for Reading and Sharing
Commended, 49th Shelf Favourite Picture Books of the Year
Commended, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
Commended, School Library Journal Best Picture Books of the Year
Commended, Horn Book Fanfare
Winner, Booksource Scout Award, Favourite Picture Book
Commended, Kirkus Best Picture Books of the Year
Commended, New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year

Editorial Reviews

I’d give this book to anyone with a coffee table, in a household with or without children.

— New York Times

A quiet, graceful book about the perspective-changing wonder of humble, everyday pleasures.

— Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

Affecting, efficient, moving, kind. Lawson’s done the impossible. He wrote poetry into a book without a single word, and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

— A Fuse #8 Production

A poignant, wordless storyline . . this ode to everyday beauty sings sweetly.

— Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

Sidewalk Flowers wraps readers in kindness, tenderness, generosity and wonder.

— Quill & Quire, STARRED REVIEW

An emotionally moving, visually delightful ode to the simple powers of observation and empathy. . . . A book to savor slowly and then revisit again and again.

— School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

A reminder that what looks like play can sometimes be a sacrament.

— Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW