Looking for Loons has been nominated for a Cybils award in the fiction picture book category. There are 117 nominations in all – makes for lots of good company. Tough odds though.
book: Looking for Loons
Looking for Loons Review in Cottage Life
There’s a really nice review of Looking for Loons in the Winter 2007 issue of Cottage Life.
Author Jennifer Lloyd and illustrator Kirsti Anne Wakelin, both Canadians, create a sensory feast, from the sunlight on a pillow to the bang of a cast-iron pan on the stove.
-Liann Bobechko, Cottage Life, Winter 2007
The magazine is full of all things cottage as well as the 2007 photo contest winners – images of enviable times spent with family and friends, surrounded by nature.
Hycroft Event 2007
Looking for Loons was one of 35 ’07 books presented by 30 authors/illustrators at last night’s Hycroft Event.
The event was, as usual, very well attended.
The very first time I attended the Hycroft Event, it was as a spectator a dozen years ago – I was a college student in my first year of an illustration and design program. My high school English teacher invited me along because she had remembered that I had been interested in writing and illustration. I watched Nan Gregory launch her extraordinarily successful first book How Smudge Came. This year, Nan Gregory launched her newest book Pink and was the special guest speaker.
There were books for sale through Vancouver Kidsbooks and Looking for Loons was one of the titles that sold out.
[photo by Rachael Ashe]
A solo book launch is scheduled for Looking for Loons in December when the author, Jennifer Lloyd, will be in town (and I get to meet her in person for the first time). I’ll post more details when I know them.
Kirsti Anne Wakelin | picture book illustration 