Children's Fiction Imagination & Play
Today
- Publisher
- Simply Read Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2016
- Category
- Imagination & Play, General
- Recommended Age
- 4 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- p to 3
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781927018682
- Publish Date
- Nov 2016
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Multiple award-winning author Julie Morstad brings us an exquisite, modern take on classic 'everything' books like Oh, What a Busy Day by Gyo Fujikawa and Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever.
About the author
span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Julie Morstadspan lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> is an author, illustrator and artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her most recent book for children, How To, marks her authorial debut, and has received starred reviews in Kirkus, School Library Journal and Quill & Quire, as well as a Governor General's award nomination. Books she has illustrated for children include When You Were Small, recipient of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award; When I Was Small, winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize; and Singing Away the Dark, which was shortlisted for a number of children's literature prizes.
Awards
- Short-listed, BC Book Prizes' Christie Harris Illustrated Literature Prize
- Winner, Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Children's, tie)
Other titles by
A Face Is a Poem
A Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse
The Classic Picture Book, Reimagined
The Puppets of Spelhorst
Swan (international pb)
The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
Time Is a Flower
Where You Came From
Girl on a Motorcycle
It Began With a Page
How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
The Dress and the Girl
House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery
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