• Age: 5 to 8
• Grade: k to 3

This poetic story has universal appeal and spans time and distance with eloquent simplicity. In fourteen gentle stanzas, sleepy-eyed children throughout history draw comfort from bedtime tales and tender lullabies. Here, their innate curiosity about the world around them is satisfied by timeless music that drifts through centuries on the wind. Loving parents sing of white polar bears, northern lights, sea creatures, and woodland animals that dance under the stars and visit each child on the edge of sleep.

Evocative rhyming text and vivid images will call little ones back time and again to hear the song that drifts into their own special dreams and links them to past and future generations.

Caroline Everson was born in England, moved to Canada when she was three, and now lives in Port Hope, Ontario, with her husband, their cat, and the last of their three children to leave home. She has a BA in Geography. Caroline has great memories of camping when their children were young, sitting around a campfire telling stories and gazing up at the stars. Her first writing success came in Grade 5 when her poem about spring was posted on Mrs. Berry's classroom door. Song on the Wind is Caroline's first picture book.

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Anne Marie Bourgeois creates narrative art where colourful images and characters take on lives of their own. Of indigenous ancestry that includes Huron, Migmag, and Algonquin connections, she is also a direct descendent of the Choctaw chief Pushmataha. She is inspired by her aboriginal history, and her work reflects a strong spiritual link to the natural world. Anne Marie is an art therapist with thirty plus years' experience working with children who suffer from abuse, trauma, and bereavement.

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"Historically around the globe, adult caregivers have comforted children by singing them to sleep. Everson's 14 beautiful verses have the potential to continue this tradition. Her serene words are complemented by Native artist Bourgeois' surreal, luminous illustrations. Muted and otherworldly, the colors and images bring depth to the text, bathing each of the families depicted with light.
A joy."
— Kirkus Starred Review

"Song on the Wind by the team of author Caroline Everson and artist Anne Marie Bourgeois is a poetic picture book story for children 3 to 7 that has universal appeal and spans time and distance with eloquent simplicity. In fourteen gentle stanzas, sleepy-eyed children throughout history draw comfort from bedtime tales and tender lullabies. Here, their innate curiosity about the world around them is satisfied by timeless music that drifts through centuries on the wind. Loving parents sing of white polar bears, northern lights, sea creatures, and woodland animals that dance under the stars and visit each child on the edge of sleep. Evocative rhyming text and vivid images will call little ones back time and again to hear the song that drifts into their own special dreams and links them to past and future generations. A beautifully crafted and charmingly entertainment from beginning to end, Song on the Wind is unreservedly recommended for family, daycare center, preschool, elementary school, and community library picture book collections."
— Midwest Book Review

"The Song on the Wind is such a pretty book. Its dreamy illustrations are soft-edged but rich with detail. Pre-readers are sure to linger over the intricate, colourful pictures, supported by a musical text of lyrical words and familiar rhythms. The story itself is compact but beautifully inclusive as the song on the wind invites the child to join the telling. The book could easily become part of a family's night time tradition as teller and listener weave their own story of times and places and origin.
Song on the Wind is a bedtime story youngsters will want to hear again and again. It would make a thoughtful gift for a new family and a delightful addition to daycare and preschool libraries."
— Resource Links

"Caroline Everson's peaceful lullaby is passed on from generation to generation in this lovely bedtime book. The tone of the lullaby offers an atmosphere of quiet melancholy which touches memories of places and times of long ago. . . Musical notes are woven through the artwork of Anne Marie Bourgeois illustrating the lullaby as it floats on the wind through time from family to family. The colourful and expressive pictures are influenced by her indigenous ancestry. The dream-like imagery reflects the narrative of the text by highlighting families, landscapes and the nature that surrounds us.
Recommended."
— CM Magazine

"Caroline Everson has written a lilting lullaby that will carry young children up and off to explore distant yet familiar landscapes. . . Anne Marie Bourgeois's illustration add an air of magic and mystery to the experience. She has softened all the edges of the world and illuminated each page with marvellous light — from a fire, the moon, the sun, a lamp the aurora borealis. The artwork is sumptuous and alive with the beauty of nature. Everson's subtle use of rhyme lend a gentleness to the song that work well with Bourgeois's artwork. She uses a soothing rhythm in her poetry that will make this a lovely choice for bedtime. It is a poem that will send children's thoughts out to sail the wind and to see what they might find — a song for the curious and the dreamy."
— Booknews Magazine

"The book may be read at bedtime to a child, but also at any other time of the day, it gives reassurance about the world around them.
RATING: 4 BOOKMARKS"
— Shelf Life Reviews

"The old song sung on the wind has comforted many children as they seek the peace of nighttime slumber. The world is a beautiful place, and for each new scene the song reaches introduces a new singer. The song itself is slightly changed as it moves from person to person. Children love it when those who care for them sing them to sleep. Each of these lovely, memorable verses will bring quiet rest and comfort. The accompanying artwork is infused with light that captures the love of parent for child, the joy found in shared songs, and the beauty of the world. Muted musical notes carry the melody from one glowing page to the next. Dreamy and luminescent, this is a book to be enjoyed in repeated readings."
— Sal's Fiction Addiction