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New Books Out and coming soon!

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I’ll Be a Chicken Too a board book by Lana Vanderlee will be coming soon I’ll keep you posted! Click here for more info!

I Can’t Do What? a Trade Paperback by Heather Camlot came out this summer. This book is a look at some of the more curious rules and laws that have been created around the world over many years. Click here for more info!

 

Book updates!

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Here are several new books this spring that I feel so fortunate to have contributed to. Sueño Bay Adventures: Hermit hill, by Nancy Deas published by Orca Book Publishers. Meet Mary Ann Shadd (Scholastic Canada Biography) by Elizabeth MacLeod Published by Scholastic Canada. Bee and Flea and the Compost Caper Anna Humphrey published by OwlKids Books. Click on the images to go to the publishers site!

 

Calvin Gets the Last Word

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Author: Margo Sorenson

Illustrator: Mike Deas

Format: Picture Book

ISBN-13: 978-0884488224
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Pub Date: Oct. 6 2020
Pages: 32

The dictionary as narrator? YES!

Calvin’s dictionary is proud to be carried everywhere Calvin goes–the breakfast table, school, baseball practice, and home again–because Calvin is determined to find the perfect word to attach to his annoying older brother. The word isn’t exactly revenge, mayhem, bewilderment, subterfuge, pulverize, or even retaliation, though all those words are so close and very tempting. When Calvin finally finds the right word for his rascally brother, his dictionary is surprised and delighted, and readers will enjoy celebrating the triumphant discovery of Calvin’s perfect word along with his dictionary. color throughout

Firebane’s Folly!

By Illustration, Tank and Fizz

The fourth book in the Tank and Fizz Series is out today! Thanks to Jenn, Liz and everyone else at Orca Book Publishers for all the hard work.  And of course thanks to the amazing Liam O’Donnell who comes up the adventures and all the fun stuff to draw. We’re currently knee deep working on Tank and Fizz 5… more about this soon!

Fishing!

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Mr. Zinger’s Cane – ChickaDEE

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I illustrated a fun story in the latest ChickaDEE by Cary Fagan with characters from his book Mr. Zinger’s Hat (illustrated by Dušan Petri?i?).

Silver Birch Express

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This year Liam O’Donnell and I’s Tank and Fizz: the Case of the Battling Bots was Nominated for the Silver Birch Express Award. Next week will be my first time attending the forest of Reading events in Toronto and visiting many schools and Libraries in the surrounding area. I can’t wait to meeting so many of Tank and Fizz readers and even get to do a workshop for the very first time together with Liam.

Below is an illustration I did that will be featured on a festival poster.

 

Owl Magazine- Insider Earth Illustrations

By Illustration, Owl Magazine

Grab this months issue of Owl Magazine which is full of earth day related content. I had the honor of doing some spot illustrations for an article all about the planet earth.