"Shh! My Brother's Napping" (Scholastic Canada) has been translated into Spanish. Publisher: Picarona/Ediciones Obelisco S.L. in Spain.
Thank you, Maral (Rights and Contracts Manager) for personally delivering my copies!<3
"Shh! My Brother's Napping" (Scholastic Canada) has been translated into Spanish. Publisher: Picarona/Ediciones Obelisco S.L. in Spain.
Thank you, Maral (Rights and Contracts Manager) for personally delivering my copies!<3
FOX AND SQUIRREL (Scholastic Canada) is a CBCbooks selection for "12 contemporary Canadian Picture Books every home should have".
Thank you, CBCbooks!
Honoured to have FOX AND SQUIRREL MAKE A FRIEND (Scholastic Canada) selected for Sarnia's first StoryWalk. THANK YOU Lambton County Library and Sarnia's Parks and Recreation Department. Someone else's book will get a chance to be featured in the Spring.
Love the idea of combining physical and reading literacy!
The CHICKEN, PIG, COW series (Annick Press)
is a Grade One New York City READS365 Selection.
"NYC Reads 365 challenges New Yorkers to read every single day."
(NYC Department of Education)
FOX AND SQUIRREL and FOX AND SQUIRREL MAKE A FRIEND (both Scholastic Canada) have been published in China by Henan Tianxing Education & Media. So excited to get my copies! Both books are now also available in French and Korean.
I've been doodling for years during school visits and then with my own kids at home. "Scribble" is for all those awesome scribblers who colour outside the lines.
"Circle, Square and Triangle are doing just fine -- but when Scribble draws them together, their imaginations soar." (from synopsis of "Scribble"/Scholastic Canada)
So honoured to have "Chicken, Pig, Cow" (Annick Press) selected for "100 BEST Canadian kids' books of all time".
Honoured to have FOX AND SQUIRREL (Scholastic Canada) listed as a Saskatchewan Shining Willow Nominee 2015.
"Colourful illustrations and simple prose together deliver a humorous and important message."
--The 2015 Willow Awards
Honoured that FOX AND SQUIRREL and RIKKI et ROUQUIN (both Scholastic Canada) were among the books selected for Prince Edward Island's Family Violence Prevention Week Program in February. Click here or photo for complete article. Books selected "...feature characters that face challenges but find a way to overcome them and collaborate. Young children’s feelings are articulated and resolved in a caring, peaceful manner."(excerpt from Journal Pioneer February 24,2015) Thank you to Journal Pioneer for permission to use the photo.
"Shh! My Brother's Napping"(Scholastic Canada) has been selected for the Ontario Library Association BEST BETS List.
All six books in the series have been translated into Simplified Chinese for Mainland China. Beautiful embossing on the cover. Thick pages. The name 'Pig' is always printed in pink, 'Chicken' in yellow and 'Cow' in purple. Half endpapers for all. Publisher: Love Reading information Consultancy (Shenzen) Co. Ltd.
"Fox and Squirrel Make a Friend" is a Toronto Public Library "First & Best" Book.
“The first books you share with your child should also be the best, and we’re excited to announce this expertly chosen list of books for parents and caregivers,” said Lisa Heggum, Children and Youth Advocate for Toronto Public Library. “Enjoying books with your child is the first step toward developing their love of reading and these positive, fun and playful stories are sure to help do just that, while also building their early literacy skills..."
"Fox and Squirrel" and "Fox and Squirrel Make a Friend" (both Scholastic Canada) are available in Korean. This is a special dot-coded edition that works with a reader pen to help kids learn the Korean language.
Honoured to have "Kenta and the Big Wave"(Annick Press) listed as a nominee for Ontario's Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award. "The Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest recreational reading program – more than 250,000 readers participate every year individually, or at their school or public library. This initiative offers eight reading programs for all ages, and each program consists of popular Canadian fiction and non-fiction titles. It is a Canada-wide program that was launched by the Ontario Library Association, but it is intended for readers across the country and those in Canadian international schools. The Forest occupies a major place of prominence in Canada’s literary landscape and encourages a love of reading in people of all ages." --Ontario Library Association
"Fox and Squirrel"(Scholastic Canada) has been selected as a Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award Nominee.
“Ruth Ohi has created a supremely delightful and animated dialogue starring two unique and very different friends, a story that is effortlessly fun and profound at once… The captivating images flow seamlessly with the perfectly understated text… Readers will rejoice in the ways these two cleverly outwit those who would divide them.” ("Fox and Squirrel" published by Scholastic Canada)
Excited to have "Kenta and the Big Wave" (Annick Press) listed as a nominee for the2014 Caribbean's OneWorld Schoolhouse Foundation's Rainforest of Reading Award.
Honoured to have "Kenta and the Big Wave" (Annick Press) listed as a nominee for Saskatchewan's 2014/15 Shining Willow Award.
Excited to hear that "Fox and Squirrel" (Scholastic Canada) will have an audio CD offered in Scholastic US book club flyers.