Thursday, October 22, 2009

Amazing Children's Author Barbara Reid


November 8 2009
In Store - Free - 2pm

We are so EXCITED to have Barbara come to Words Worth! Barbara is an incredible children's author and illustrator who is famous for her Plasticine artwork. This will be an incredible afternoon that your children won't want to miss!

Click HERE to watch a video about Barbara Reid


About Perfect Snow:
A perfect snow has fallen, and first-grader Scott and fourth-grader Jim have been
daydreaming the morning away, making plans, doodling sketches of snowmen
and snow forts, all in anticipation of recess and the endless possibilities of this
perfect snow.

Barbara Reid uses her signature Plasticine style and blends it for the first time
with ink wash panels to create a unique mixed media masterpiece. Drawing
inspiration from the schoolyard of her own Toronto childhood and the ones she
visits today, she manages to create authentic images to which readers of all ages
will relate. Perfect Snow is a timeless Canadian tale that will beautifully enhance
any snowy day!

About Barbara Reid:
Barbara Reid is an acclaimed Canadian author and illustrator, who won the CBA Libris Award’s Children’s Author and Illustrator of the year in 2007. Her first book, The New Baby Calf, by Edith Newlin Chase was shortlisted for the Canada Council Prize for Illustration. More than twenty books later, her other awards include the UNICEF Ezra Jack Keats Award, the Amelia Francis Howard Gibbon Medal, The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, the Mr. Christie's Book award, the Elizabeth Cleaver Award and the IBBY Honor List . The Party won the Governor General's Award for Illustration. Most recently, Fox Walked Alone was named to the IBBY International Honour List and shortlisted for The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and The Blue Spruce Award. Her books have been published in Canada, the U.S.A. Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Finland, Norway, China, Germany and Thailand.

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