Children's Fiction Diversity & Multicultural
What's In The Cookie Tin?
- Publisher
- Chalkboard Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2024
- Category
- Diversity & Multicultural, Humorous Stories, Multigenerational, Siblings
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771058834
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $16.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781771058841
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $25.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 0
- Grade: p to 9
- Reading age: 0
Description
It's a universal experience! Generations of families from many countries and cultures share the common practice of repurposing the cookie tin.
This humorous picture book follows Olivia and Benjamin on their quest to eat what's inside the cookie tin. The siblings' experience at their grandparents' home sheds light on a multicultural phenomenon involving the cookie tins found in many homes worldwide. What do you think is in the cookie tin?
This book includes a delicious butter cookie recipe!
About the authors
Yolanda T. Marshall is an award-winning Guyanese-born Canadian author of diverse, inclusive, festive children's literature. She ventured into the world of publishing in 2008. Yolanda is currently a traditionally published and agented author of seventeen books, including, A Piece of Black Cake for Santa, Miles Away in The Caribbean, Sweet Sorrel Stand, C is for Carnival, Hot Cross Buns For Everyone and one of CBC's best Canadian picture books of 2020 and TD’s Top Recommended Reads for 2023 - My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans. Yolanda is also a columnist/editor for Canada's Caribbean Camera printed newspaper ‘Lit Corner’ where she promotes the books of other marginalized, Canadian authors. She has read for over 25,000 students annually, for the last few years in Canada and was recently invited by a New York school board into their classrooms. Yolanda appeared in numerous Television interviews, magazines and news articles and is a recipient of the Caribbean media Loop Awards: Author of the Year 2022, CIBWE Top 100 Black Women to Watch 2017, one of Canada’s 100 Accomplished Black Women in 2022 and the My People Award: Outstanding Contributions to Canadian Literature in 2023. She is a Membership Chair on the CANSCAIP Board (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers), a professional member of The Writer's Union of Canada and a PAL member of the SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Wr
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Golnoush Moini is an illustrator, 2D animator, background, and character designer originally from Iran, now based in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a Master's degree in Illustration and is a graduate of Vancouver Film School in Classical Animation. As a freelancer, she has worked on a variety of books, magazines, and commercial projects. Golnoush is deeply passionate about storytelling and enjoys exploring new techniques for creating illustrations and producing short animations, particularly those aimed at children.
