Rose Cowles
Rose Cowles is the illustrator of the award-winning Puppies on Board. She has a big black dog named Rosie. She loves animals and can paint eleven puppies and a dog over and over again so that you can recognize them on every page. "I love painting," she says. "It keeps me happy and that's the best gift I can give to my kids." It's a pretty good gift for everyone else as well! Rose also illustrated The F Team for Orca. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.



"At first Mollie could count only four or five, but as Sheba cleaned each one, Mollie counted six, then seven, then eight, nine and finally TEN wriggling, noisy, hungry puppies.
Then Mollie noticed something else—a tiny scrap of scraggly black fur tucked into the far corner of the pen."



My friends and I love hockey.
We shared a single dream:
To shoot like stars across the ice
and make our town’s A team.
Last year we tried out full of hope.
Five friends and I were keen,
Until we got a look at them.
Those A’s were big and mean.
Right from the start they broke the rules.
“We’ve picked our team,” they said.
“Go home, Frenchie. You, too, Fanny –
and don’t forget Fat Fred.”

Zzz ...
