Karen Patkau
Karen Patkau has been writing and illustrating picture books, with a focus on nature and non-fiction, for more than thirty years. She won the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal for her first book, Don’t Eat Spiders by Robert Heidbreder, and since then her titles have appeared on lists including Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award finalists, Green Book Festival Award finalists, Ontario Library Association Best Bets and White Ravens selections. Karen has also illustrated Forest: A See to Learn Book. She lives in Toronto.












“You be the damsel,” Trevor said.
“No way,” Cassie said. “It’s my idea. You have to be the damsel.”
“Then I won’t play,” Trevor said.
Cassie thought for a minute. Then she said, “All right. You can be a dragon. Dragons are big and fierce. They roar a lot and breathe fire.”
“All right,” Trevor said.
