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Kyo Maclear is a critically acclaimed, award-winning author for big people and little people. Her previous picture books for children include Spork, Mr. Flux and Virginia Wolf, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Illustration, Canada's most prestigious children's book prize. The Letter Opener, her first novel for adults, won the K.M. Hunter Artists Award and was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her most recent novel, Stray Love, appeared on several notable ""Best of 2012"" lists. She lives in Toronto with singer and composer David Wall and their two children. Visit her online at kyomaclearkids.com. Julie Morstad is an author, illustrator and artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her most recent book for children, How To, marks her authorial debut, and has received starred reviews in Kirkus, School Library Journal and Quill & Quire, as well as a Governor General's award nomination. Books she has illustrated for children include When You Were Small, recipient of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award; When I Was Small, winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize; and Singing Away the Dark, which was shortlisted for a number of children's literature prizes.
Praise for Kyo Maclear<br><br> Knowledge of Virginia Woolf and her painter-sister Vanessa Bell is unnecessary; this works beautifully as a bad-day/bad-mood or animal-transformation tale, while readers who know actual depression will find it handled with tenderly forceful aplomb. -- Starred review, Kirkus Reviews ( Virginia Wolf )<br><br> Parents will enjoy sharing this book with their sometimes 'wolfish' children. -- Starred review, School Library Journal ( Virginia Wolf )<br><br>. . . an ambitious story about girlish blues, sisterly differences and the healing power of art . . . -- New York Times ( Virginia Wolf )<br><br> While some picture-book tales have difficulty promoting the 'different can be good' message without slipping into deep didacticism, Maclear's text feels nearly effortless. The inanimate-object identification also pairs brilliantly with Arsenault's melding of mixed media and digital art. -- Starred review, Kirkus Reviews ( Spork )
