These are the Korean and English editions of my Water Wow, side by side. I’ve never had a copy of any of the foreign editions before so this package was a welcome surprise. Thanks, Annick Press!
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Hibernating for the winter
I’ve been busy writing and dreaming up new ideas. I hope to have new updates before too long! In the meantime, here’s the view from my window.
Wildlife in the City!
Hey, I’m a board book author! My two board books, City Critters and City Bugs, were officially published in September, 2018. Toddlers love wildlife of all sorts, even slugs and bugs and the ones adults don’t love. There are wild animals (and wild bugs) even in the city. These books feature photos of the kind of wildlife a toddler might meet in their neighbourhood.
Tweet!
Hello 21st century! I’ve arrived! I’m on Twitter now. You can find me @AntoniaBanyard. I’m still learning the ropes, so bear with me please. I’d love to hear from you.
Yeesh, what’s next, Instagram??
Gotta love librarians!
The things you can learn at your local library!
Thanks to Avi, our children’s librarian, for being more in the know than I am. He showed me a great review of the new book, Eat Up! in the April issue of Quill & Quire.
I was just as interested in the other book that was reviewed, Meatless? by Sarah Elton. I’ll have to find myself a copy.
Fun times on Granville Island
OK, so it was rainy, but that made it a perfect day for us to talk about water. Students from two Vancouver schools, False Creek Elementary and Jules Quesnel Elementary, came down to Granville Island to hear us talk about our infographic, Water Wow!. The energy was palpable, with over a hundred 11- and 12-year olds in the room.
We warmed up with some “wows!” and recruited a volunteer “wow” co-ordinator, who enthusiastically cued the audience. We talked about the water in their backyard—the watersheds on Vancouver’s North Shore—and around the world, such as the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in China.
A group of volunteers created a “human infographic” on stage, to demonstrate how water is distributed globally. We had a lot of fun with that, thanks to Paula’s fully-decorated signs!
Question period was lively, especially as some of the kids knew far more than we’d expected. And we were lucky to have Water Wow’s illustrator and designer in the audience and available to field questions about how the art was created.
It was a treat to connect with our audience directly. Their enthusiasm was infectious, and we left inspired!
Birch Trees and Fairy Godmothers
Librarians are a little like the fairy godmothers of children’s literature. A wonderful group of these fairy godmothers—from the Ontario Library Association—have sprinkled fairy dust on our book, Water Wow!, by nominating it for the Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. And it’s in great company—all the other nominated books look really interesting!
The Silver Birch is part of the Forest of Reading Awards (and forests are perfect for fairies, of course). What makes these awards so special is that they’re reader’s choice awards. I’m thrilled that kids in Ontario will be reading Water Wow! Thank you fairy godmothers!
Antonia Banyard 