Award-winning author LINDA BAILEY has written more than twenty books for children in a number of different genres, including the best-selling If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur, When Santa Was a Baby, Seven Dead Pirates and the Stanley-the-dog series. Known for her wonderful sense of humor, Linda has garnered a long list of honors in both Canada and the United States, such as the Blue Spruce Award, the Atlantic Provinces Hackmatack Award, the Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, the California Young Reader Medal and the Georgia Storybook Award. The author lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. KASS REICHwas born in Montreal, Canada. She works as an artist and educator and has spent a majority of the last decade traveling and living abroad. Kass graduated with a degree in Art Education from Concordia University and then picked up and moved to Beijing where she worked as an early childhood educator for nearly three years. Working with the little ones inspired her to start making picture books for very young learners. After Beijing she lived in Hong Kong, London, England, and Melbourne, Australia. She now finds herself back in Canada, but this time in Toronto.Kass Reich lives in Toronto, Ontario. Click here to add Read
<b>PRAISE FOR <i>If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur</i> </b> There aren't many books that have the courage to be this silly....Simply wonderful. --<i>The Globe and Mail</i> Selected as one of <i>Today's Parent</i>'s Top 15 Picture books of 2014 Nominated for the Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award, 2016 <b>PRAISE FOR <i>When Santa Was a Baby</i> </b> A fond, reassuring look at the eccentric childhood of a much-beloved holiday figure. --Starred Review, <i> School Library Journal</i> Bailey and Godbout give Santa Claus a backstory in this sweetly funny account, warmly illustrated with soft, nostalgic pencil and pastel artwork....[A] clever take on the Santa myth that develops him as a character with his own thoughts and motivations. --Starred Review, <i> Publishers Weekly</i> <b>PRAISE FOR <i>Seven Dead Pirates</i> </b> VERDICT Ahoy, ye maties: don't miss this treasure of a middle grade yarn. --Starred Review<i>, School Library Journal</i> Bailey endows Lewis with several scene-stealing allies (notably a fierce kindergartener) and leaves him confidently steering a course toward calm waters. Piratical fun well-stocked with colorful cast members living and arrghh. --Starred Review, <i> Kirkus Reviews</i>