About

Natasha Donovan

Natasha Donovan is the illustrator of the award-winning Mothers of Xsan series (written by Brett Huson). She illustrated the graphic novel Surviving the City (written by Tasha Spillett), which won a Manitoba Book Award and received an American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA) honor. She also illustrated Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer which won an Orbis Pictus Honor Book and an American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA). Natasha is Métis, and spent her early life in Vancouver, British Columbia. Although she moved to the United States to marry a mathematician, she prefers to keep her own calculations to the world of color and line. She lives in Washington. www.natashadonovan.com

Books by Natasha Donovan

We Are the Medicine

by (author) Tasha Spillett
illustrated by Natasha Donovan
letterer Scott B. Henderson

Ages: 12 to 18
Grades: 7 to 12

The Bee Mother

read by Hetxw'ms Gyetxw Brett Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 9 to 12
Grades: 4 to 7

Fish Farts

And Other Amazing Ways Animals Adapt

by (author) Joanne Settel
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 7 to 10
Grades: 2 to 5

The Bee Mother

by (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 9 to 12
Grades: 4 to 6

When the Stars Came Home

by (author) Brittany Luby
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 4 to 8
Grades: p to 3

Drawn to Change the World Graphic Novel Collection

16 Youth Climate Activists, 16 Artists

illustrated by Emma Reynolds, Ann Maulina, Natasha Donovan, Teo DuVall, Devon Holzwarth, Erin Hunting, Margarita Kukhtina, Victoria Maderna & Federico Piatti, Shivana Sookdeo, Anoosha Syed, Jade Zhang, Derick Brooks, Gloria Félix, Natasha Nayo & Bill Masuku

Ages: 8 to 12
Grades: 3 to 7

A River's Gifts

by (author) Patricia Newman
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 8 to 12
Grades: 3 to 7

The Raven Mother

by (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 9 to 12
Grades: 4 to 6

Global Ocean, The

by (author) Rochelle Strauss
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 8 to 12
Grades: 3 to 7

The Wolf Mother

by (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 9 to 11
Grades: 4 to 6

Borders

by (author) Thomas King
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 10 to 14
Grades: 5 to 9

The Frog Mother

by (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 9 to 11
Grades: 4 to 6

Classified

The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

by (author) Traci Sorell
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 7 to 11
Grades: 2 to 5

When I Was Young in Nunavut

Inuktitut Edition

by (author) Deborah Kigjugalik Webster
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 6 to 8
Grades: 1 to 3

When I Was Young in Nunavut

English Edition

by (author) Deborah Kigjugalik Webster
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 6 to 8
Grades: 1 to 3

From the Roots Up

by (author) Tasha Spillett
illustrated by Natasha Donovan & Donovan Yaciuk

Ages: 12 to 18
Grades: 8 to 12

The Eagle Mother

by (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 9 to 12
Grades: 4 to 6

The Grizzly Mother

by (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 9 to 12
Grades: 4 to 6

This Place

150 Years Retold

by (author) Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Richard Van Camp, Katherena Vermette & Chelsea Vowel
illustrated by Jen Storm, Tara Audibert, Kyle Charles, G.M.B. Chomichuk, Natasha Donovan, Scott B. Henderson, Andrew Lodwick, Scott A. Ford, Donovan Yaciuk & Ryan Howe
foreword by Alicia Elliott

Ages: 12 to 18
Grades: 8 to 12

Surviving the City

by (author) Tasha Spillett
illustrated by Natasha Donovan & Donovan Yaciuk

Ages: 12 to 18
Grades: 8 to 12

The Sockeye Mother

by (author) Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Ages: 9 to 12
Grades: 4 to 6