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edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback
category: Children's Fiction
published: Sep 2001
ISBN:9781551432069
publisher: Orca Book Publishers

No Two Snowflakes

by Sheree Fitch, illustrated by Janet Wilson

tagged: friendship
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

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 has illustrated children's books since 1990, with more than forty books to her credit. Although her realistic style is consistent, her choice of medium varies widely. She works at developing her skills through painting and drawing from life whenever possible.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
0 to 7
Grade:
p to 2
Reading age:
4 to 8

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