The Fog

A Quill & Quire Best Kids' Book of the Year (2017)A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2017 PRAISE FOR The Fog This thoughtful selection, full of amusing details, has much to offer readers and listeners who are thinking about the importance of the environment and the need to come together to care for it. --School Library Journal [S]weet and compelling . . . Pak's watercolour and pencil illustrations are playfully reminiscent of Nova Scotian painter Alex Colville. --Globe and Mail Maclear (The Liszts) and Pak (When the World Is Dreaming) deliver readers to an icy island overtaken by a persistent fog in this haunting but hopeful allegory. --Publishers Weekly This book is a tribute to all those wonderful people (and birds) who are bothered, and who understand that it is important to see, and confront, the problems that face us all. --Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews A perfect and gentle introduction to environmental issues for young readers everywhere. --Picture Books Blogger The whimsical drawings help add humor to the story, which shows readers that when faced with a problem you must first recognize it before you can fix it. The subtle message is not lost and readers will enjoy the light-hearted humor peppered throughout the story... Recommended. --School Library Connection PRAISE FOR Julia, Child (by Kyo Maclear): Maclear, who began her career writing for adults, has turned in to one of the country's best children's authors....I guarantee it'll leave you hungry. --The National Post [A] delicious new children's book.... --The Toronto Star Julie Morstad can do no wrong, and mixed with Maclear's musings on who these women might have been as girls, Julia, Child cooks up some real magic. --Huffington Post PRAISE FOR Flowers Are Calling (illustrated by Kenard Pak): Pak's pretty, digitally worked watercolors achieve equilibrium between stylized reduction and naturalistic verisimilitude. --Kirkus Reviews Beautifully subdued watercolor and digital media illustrations, at times reminiscent of Jon Klassen's work, will draw readers into the text about symbiotic relationship between flowers and their pollinators. --Booklist PRAISE FOR The Fog This thoughtful selection, full of amusing details, has much to offer readers and listeners who are thinking about the importance of the environment and the need to come together to care for it. --School Library Journal [S]weet and compelling . . . Pak's watercolour and pencil illustrations are playfully reminiscent of Nova Scotian painter Alex Colville. --Globe and Mail Maclear (The Liszts) and Pak (When the World Is Dreaming) deliver readers to an icy island overtaken by a persistent fog in this haunting but hopeful allegory. --Publishers Weekly This book is a tribute to all those wonderful people (and birds) who are bothered, and who understand that it is important to see, and confront, the problems that face us all. --Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews A perfect and gentle introduction to environmental issues for young readers everywhere. --Picture Books Blogger The whimsical drawings help add humor to the story, which shows readers that when faced with a problem you must first recognize it before you can fix it. The subtle message is not lost and readers will enjoy the light-hearted humor peppered throughout the story... Recommended. --School Library Connection PRAISE FOR Julia, Child (by Kyo Maclear): Maclear, who began her career writing for adults, has turned in to one of the country's best children's authors....I guarantee it'll leave you hungry. --The National Post [A] delicious new children's book.... --The Toronto Star Julie Morstad can do no wrong, and mixed with Maclear's musings on who these women might have been as girls, Julia, Child cooks up some real magic. --Huffington Post PRAISE FOR Flowers Are Calling (illustrated by Kenard Pak): Pak's pretty, digitally worked watercolors achieve equilibrium between stylized reduction and naturalistic verisimilitude. --Kirkus Reviews Beautifully subdued watercolor and digital media illustrations, at times reminiscent of Jon Klassen's work, will draw readers into the text about symbiotic relationship between flowers and their pollinators. --Booklist PRAISE FOR The Fog [S]weet and compelling . . . Pak's watercolour and pencil illustrations are playfully reminiscent of Nova Scotian painter Alex Colville. --Globe and Mail Maclear (The Liszts) and Pak (When the World Is Dreaming) deliver readers to an icy island overtaken by a persistent fog in this haunting but hopeful allegory. --Publishers Weekly This book is a tribute to all those wonderful people (and birds) who are bothered, and who understand that it is important to see, and confront, the problems that face us all. --Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews A perfect and gentle introduction to environmental issues for young readers everywhere. --Picture Books Blogger PRAISE FOR Julia, Child (by Kyo Maclear): Maclear, who began her career writing for adults, has turned in to one of the country's best children's authors....I guarantee it'll leave you hungry. --The National Post [A] delicious new children's book.... --The Toronto Star Julie Morstad can do no wrong, and mixed with Maclear's musings on who these women might have been as girls, Julia, Child cooks up some real magic. --Huffington Post PRAISE FOR Flowers Are Calling (illustrated by Kenard Pak): Pak's pretty, digitally worked watercolors achieve equilibrium between stylized reduction and naturalistic verisimilitude. --Kirkus Reviews Beautifully subdued watercolor and digital media illustrations, at times reminiscent of Jon Klassen's work, will draw readers into the text about symbiotic relationship between flowers and their pollinators. --Booklist PRAISE FOR The Fog Maclear (The Liszts) and Pak (When the World Is Dreaming) deliver readers to an icy island overtaken by a persistent fog in this haunting but hopeful allegory. --Publishers Weekly This book is a tribute to all those wonderful people (and birds) who are bothered, and who understand that it is important to see, and confront, the problems that face us all. --Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Reviews A perfect and gentle introduction to environmental issues for young readers everywhere. --Picture Books Blogger PRAISE FOR Julia, Child (by Kyo Maclear): Maclear, who began her career writing for adults, has turned in to one of the country's best children's authors....I guarantee it'll leave you hungry. --The National Post [A] delicious new children's book.... --The Toronto Star Julie Morstad can do no wrong, and mixed with Maclear's musings on who these women might have been as girls, Julia, Child cooks up some real magic. --Huffington Post PRAISE FOR Flowers Are Calling (illustrated by Kenard Pak): Pak's pretty, digitally worked watercolors achieve equilibrium between stylized reduction and naturalistic verisimilitude. --Kirkus Reviews Beautifully subdued watercolor and digital media illustrations, at times reminiscent of Jon Klassen's work, will draw readers into the text about symbiotic relationship between flowers and their pollinators. --Booklist PRAISE FOR The Fog Maclear (The Liszts) and Pak (When the World Is Dreaming) deliver readers to an icy island overtaken by a persistent fog in this haunting but hopeful allegory. --Publishers Weekly PRAISE FOR Julia, Child (by Kyo Maclear): Maclear, who began her career writing for adults, has turned in to one of the country's best children's authors....I guarantee it'll leave you hungry. --The National Post [A] delicious new children's book.... --The Toronto Star Julie Morstad can do no wrong, and mixed with Maclear's musings on who these women might have been as girls, Julia, Child cooks up some real magic. --Huffington Post PRAISE FOR Flowers Are Calling (illustrated by Kenard Pak): Pak's pretty, digitally worked watercolors achieve equilibrium between stylized reduction and naturalistic verisimilitude. --Kirkus Reviews Beautifully subdued watercolor and digital media illustrations, at times reminiscent of Jon Klassen's work, will draw readers into the text about symbiotic relationship between flowers and their pollinators. --Booklist PRAISE FOR Julia, Child (by Kyo Maclear): -Maclear, who began her career writing for adults, has turned in to one of the country's best children's authors....I guarantee it'll leave you hungry.- --The National Post -[A] delicious new children's book....- --The Toronto Star -Julie Morstad can do no wrong, and mixed with Maclear's musings on who these women might have been as girls, Julia, Child cooks up some real magic.- --Huffington Post PRAISE FOR Flowers Are Calling (illustrated by Kenard Pak): -Pak's pretty, digitally worked watercolors achieve equilibrium between stylized reduction and naturalistic verisimilitude.- --Kirkus Reviews -Beautifully subdued watercolor and digital media illustrations, at times reminiscent of Jon Klassen's work, will draw readers into the text about symbiotic relationship between flowers and their pollinators.- --Booklist PRAISE FOR Julia, Child by Kyo Maclear: Maclear, who began her career writing for adults, has turned in to one of the country's best children's authors....I guarantee it'll leave you hungry. --The National Post [A] delicious new children's book.... --The Toronto Star Julie Morstad can do no wrong, and mixed with Maclear's musings on who these women might have been as girls, Julia, Child cooks up some real magic. --Huffington Post, 20 New Classics Every Child Should Own PRAISE FOR The Good Little Book by Kyo Maclear: It is easy to imagine an actor with an upper-class British accent reading the wryly humorous text...The humor and art along the way create an enjoyable romp. --Kirkus Reviews Maclear steers clear of 'reading is good for you' and focuses instead on a boy's affection for a dearly loved object and sorrow at its loss. But with the affection is something more subtle, a celebration of the comfort of rereading, of having a favourite book that's the only book for you.... Funny and thoughtful. --The Toronto Star PRAISE FOR Flowers Are Calling, illustrated by Kenard Pak: Pak's pretty, digitally worked watercolors achieve equilibrium between stylized reduction and naturalistic verisimilitude. --Kirkus Reviews Beautifully subdued watercolor and digital media illustrations, at times reminiscent of Jon Klassen's work, will draw readers into the text about symbiotic relationship between flowers and their pollinators. --Booklist