Fiction (Juvenile, picture book)
Seasons
With poetry selected by Alberto Manguel.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1990.
Synopsis
In a riot of color, Aska celebrates the whirling gusts of Spring and the informal ceremony of a Summer wedding, the billowing sheaves of an Autumn harvest and the serenity of a skater in Winter. Each painting evokes the joy of the moment and the wonderment of childhood, when all things seem newly created, and anything is possible.
Alberto Manguel, the renowned editor and translator, has selected enchanting poems from around the world to complement each painting.
Fiction (Juvenile, picture book)
Tapicero Tap Tap
Toronto: Tundra Books, 2006.
Publisher’s Synopsis
As a very hot day in a Spanish village by the sea draws to a close, the children have grown bored and quarrelsome. They turn to their uncle to amuse them. He, too, is ready for a break from his work and tells them a story they love to hear.
Once he had grand dreams of seeing the world, but now he is known as “Tapicero Tap Tap,” after the sounds that come from his humble furniture workshop. The war robbed him of his dreams of travel and he stayed in his small Spanish village making fine sofas and chairs.
But Tapicero Tap Tap is far from bitter: he has found and shared the treasures of a productive life lived among family and good friends. And besides, it’s never too late to travel.
Fiction (Juvenile, picture book)
Who Goes to the Park?
Montreal: Tundra Books, 1984.
Synopsis
A seasonal approach to Toronto’s High Park.
Awards and Honours
1985 City of Toronto Book Award (co-winner along with J.M.S. Careless’s Toronto To 1918, and, Joseph Skvorecky’s The Engineer of Human Souls)
Fiction (Juvenile, picture book)
Who Hides in the Park?
Montreal: Tundra Books, 1990.
Text in English, French and Japanese.
Synopsis
Features highlights of Vancouver’s Stanley Park.
Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Jones, Raymond E., and Jon C. Stott. Canadian Children’s Books: A Critical Guide to Authors and Illustrators. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 2000.
PS8081 .S86 2000
The Storymakers: Illustrating Children’s Books: 72 Artists and Illustrators Talk About Their Work. Markham, Ont.: Pembroke Publishers, 1999.
NC975.6 .S76 1999