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Description
Blue Spruce Reading Program nominee
Pearson Canada Readers’ Choice Award nominee
Ruth Schwartz Award nominee 2002
Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon nominee 2002
CCBC Our Choice 2002
"What is snow?" Araba, a Ghanaian child, asks her Canadian pen pal. The response unfolds as a letter in poetry, rich in lyricism and in what author Sheree Fitch would call "lipslipperiness." Janet Wilson's glowing pastel illustrations revel in all the sensory experiences, the color, associated with the cold white stuff. Through the asking and the telling, two children reach halfway around the world and touch one another.
Renowned Canadian poet and performer, Sheree Fitch has won many awards for her thirteen books of poetry for children, including the Mr. Christie's Book Award for There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work Inspiring to Children. A Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Canada, Sheree wrote a collection of poems, If You Could Wear My Sneakers, to highlight the rights of children as declared by the United Nations. In recent years, she has been a visiting author in Belize, Mexico, Bhutan, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Janet Wilson is a multi-award-winning illustrator whose work has graced many children's books. Her notable titles include Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt and In Flander's Fields. Sarah May and the New Red Dress (Orca, 1998) and Me and Mr. Mah (Orca, 1999) were Canadian Library Assocation Honour Books.
About the Authors
Sheree Fitch's first two books, Toes in My Nose (1987) and Sleeping Dragons All Around (1989), launched her career as a poet, rhymster, and a “kind of Canadian female Dr. Seuss.” Fitch has won almost every major award for Canadian childrenÕs literature since then, including the 2000 Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work Inspirational to Canadian Children. She has over twenty-five books to her credit, including her bestselling and critically praised adult novel, Kiss the Joy As It Flies (2008). Fitch's home base is the East Coast of Canada.
Visit her at: shereefitch.com
Janet Wilson is the artist and author of Our Heroes: How Kids are Making a Difference, Our Rights: How Kids are Changing the World, and Our Earth: How Kids are Saving the Planet, which was the winner of the Science in Society Book Award and named a Smithsonian Notable Book. Her other books include the award-winning Shannen and the Dream for a School. Janet loves to tell the stories of young people taking action. She lives in Eden Mills, Ontario.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age:
- 0 to 7
- Grade:
- p to 2
- Reading age:
- 4 to 8
Out of print
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