I'M AFRAID, SAID THE LEAF
Nominated for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Young People - Illustrated Text!
PRAISE FOR I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf:
"Every worry is addressed and every need is met in this eloquent portrait of the interconnectedness of the living world." -STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly
" T he art renders the tale truly universal." -Kirkus Reviews
"The perfect book for any young reader who'd rather read outside." -Booklist
" A good picture book about kindness and how all species are interconnected and depend on each other "to exist and thrive in harmony."" -Metroland
"I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf will offer new connections to the natural and human worlds each time you read it with a fortunate child." -Imaginary Elevators
"A great book to get children thinking about nature and perhaps experience it in a way they hadn't before!" -The Southern Bookseller
DANIELLE DANIEL
Is an acclaimed author and illustrator whose journey in artmaking and book publishing has gone hand in hand with all she has learned - and continues to learn - about her Indigenous ancestry and her relationship with the land. Some of her picture books include I'm Afraid Said the Leaf, Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and selected as one of the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing , Sometimes I Feel Like a River and Once in a Blue Moon. Her debut Middle Grade novel, Forever Birchwood, was published in 2022, as well as her first adult novel, Daughters of the Deer. Her next middle-grade novel, Reasons to Look at the Night Sky, was published in 2024 by Tundra Books. She lives on Manitoulin Island among a large family of cedars, a husk of hares and a fifty-year-old Blanding's turtle, who visits quite regularly.
MATT JAMES
Has won many awards for his picture books such as the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the New Mexico Book Award and the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature. The books he has written include Tadpoles; Nice Try, Charlie!; and his author-illustrator debut The Funeral, which was named a New York Times New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book. He also illustrated When the Moon Comes by Paul Harbridge; The Stone Thrower by Jael Ealey Richardson; and I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf by Danielle Daniel.
Edad recomendada: A partir de 5 años.
