Joanne Schwartz

Joanne Schwartz was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Her first picture book, Our Corner Grocery Store, illustrated by Laura Beingessner, was nominated for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Her other books include City Alphabet and City Numbers, with photos by Matt Beam, and two Inuit folktales with Cape Dorset elder Qaunaq Mikkigak — The Legend of the Fog, illustrated by Danny Christopher, and Grandmother Ptarmigan, illustrated by Qin Leng. Joanne has been a children’s librarian for more than twenty-five years. She lives in Toronto.

Books by Joanne Schwartz

Head Full of Clouds

After it Rains

The Old Woman

Wereduck

Fight On!

Fight On!

Pinny In Fall

Town Is by the Sea

The Legend of the Fog

Pinny in Summer

Grandmother Ptarmigan

Grandmother Ptarmigan

The Legend of the Fog