My newest book is out in the world! Hooray! It is the third board book in the West Coast Wild series and is titled Seashore Hide and Seek.
Lots of fun for toddlers and young children to discover the amazing creatures that live along the rugged shoreline of the Pacific west coast!
They are resilient creatures who adapt themselves to the harsh conditions of the changing tides twice every day.
See them revealed as the tide goes out, then watch them hide as the waves wash over them again.
I heard today that The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island has been named in the long list for the Green Earth Book Award.
According to the award’s website, this is a prestigious environmental stewardship book award for children’s titles, honouring authors and illustrators who spark environmental awareness in young readers.
How lovely to be included! Fingers crossed for the short list!
Happy Book Birthday to Karen Reczuch and I, who are celebrating our new book released today!
The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island is now available in your favourite bookstore. We couldn’t be more pleased!
And we are delighted to share the day with our Groundwood colleagues who also have new books released today. Congratulations to all!
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Karen Reczuch and I are thrilled and honoured to have one of our books selected for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. West Coast Wild BABY ANIMALS is on the 2025-26 list. Hooray!
This wonderful program is a (free!) literacy initiative for young children – aiming to inspire them with a love of reading. The famous and talented singer, Dolly Parton, said she grew up with a father who was the smartest person she knew – yet he could not read. She remembered how it troubled him and so began this wonderful give-away program of books for young children in his honour.
Small children in many places will receive our little book in the mail, and we couldn’t be happier!
It was welcome news to hear that our little board book was selected for the TD Summer Reading Club this year. We thank everyone who made this possible.
Cheers for West Coast Wild Baby Animals!
Spring is officially here and Groundwood Books is showing off their new works of the season. I’m thrilled to have my upcoming book The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island as part of this wonderful collection.
Although Tufted Puffins is not being released until August, I am already very excited about its arrival. It is the first title in a new series “Wild by Nature” that Karen Reczuch and I have been working hard on over the last couple of years.
As is our way, the two of us have had adventures in the creation of this book and the ones that will follow. What fun it has been! And so interesting, too!
Although it is a few months away from being available in stores, I am happy to announce my new book that will be here soon: The Tufted Puffins of Triangle Island!
It is the first book in a new ecology series “Wild by Nature” that Karen Reczuch and I have been working on. We are very excited about it!
You will meet a pair of beautiful birds, with long golden tufts, as they prepare a burrow and lay a single egg on the steep cliffside of Triangle Island — a rare and protected habitat off the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island.
The tufted puffins will raise their baby in this wild and remote place, until it is ready to leave the nest and live at sea. If Triangle Island remains undisturbed, and the ocean stays cool, clean and full of fish, these marvellous birds and their babies will continue to thrive and grow.
Are you interested in finding out about how to write or illustrate a children’s book and get it published? Do you live in Vancouver area? If so, you may be interested in an upcoming event at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, on Tuesday, March 11 at 6:30 pm.
WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING KID’S BOOKS: THE INSIDE STORY.
Listen to a panel of professional children’s authors and illustrators and find out how they broke into this exciting and competitive field, and built their careers. Ask them anything!
Find out:
The panelists include: Nikki Bergstresser, Hayley Lowe, Cynthia Mackey, Kirsten Pendreigh, and Pam Withers, and the discussion is moderated by Ellen Schwartz. All are members of CWILL BC, the Children’s Writers and Illustrators of British Columbia.
The event takes place at VPL, Central Branch, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. It’s a joint event between the library and CWILL BC, and it’s always a wonderful, informative and entertaining night! I highly recommend it!
