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    Sometimes We Think You Are a Monkey

    Author Johanna Skibsrud, Sarah Blacker
    Illustrated by Julie Morstad
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    $8.99 US
    Tundra Book Group | Puffin Canada
    7.1"W x 5.62"H x 0.4"D  
    On sale Mar 14, 2017 | 20 Pages | 9780143187707
    Up to Preschool
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    Your little arms and legs move just like you are a baby monkey climbing into the leafy branches of a tree. But you are not a monkey.

    Your nose twitches and your mouth moves as though you are a bunny sniffing the garden air. But you are not a bunny.

    Moving from animal to animal, leading to a wonderful surprise at the end, this charming story engages young readers with both the text and the adorable art.

    A wonderful gift for both young children and their parents, especially every new parent who can’t stop marveling at their baby.

    © Dan Davis Photography
    JOHANNA SKIBSRUD is the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists as well as the novel Quartet for the End of Time and the short story collections Tiger, Tiger and This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. She is also the author of three poetry collections, including The Description of the World, which won the 2017 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and the Fred Cogswell Award. Originally from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, she currently divides her time between Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Tucson, Arizona. View titles by Johanna Skibsrud
    © Jesse Blackwood
    Sarah Blacker is a writer and editor currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Sarah is donating part of her royalties to Camp Oochigeas, a summer camp for children with cancer. For more information, please visit www.ooch.org. View titles by Sarah Blacker
    JULIE MORSTAD is the author and illustrator of Today, How To and Time Is a Flower, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize, and a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, among other honors. She has illustrated many other beloved stories for children, including Kate DiCamillo’s The Puppets of Spelhorst. In 2018, she illustrated a stamp for Canada Post. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. View titles by Julie Morstad
    PRAISE FOR Sometimes We Think You Are a Monkey:

    "Vancouver illustrator Julie Morstad provides beautiful art for this ode to babies. Using her signature nostalgic style and a vibrant palette, Morstad breathes life into the animals on the page. In each colourful spread, she goes beyond what is expressed in the text and supplies a visual clue as to what the next animal will be." --Quill & Quire

    "A tender tribute to infancy, aimed at parents (or grandparents) who want to curl up with a baby and a quiet book." --CM Magazine

    "This sweet, playful story reads like a poem from a parent to a newborn child." --The Children's Bookshelf

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    Your little arms and legs move just like you are a baby monkey climbing into the leafy branches of a tree. But you are not a monkey.

    Your nose twitches and your mouth moves as though you are a bunny sniffing the garden air. But you are not a bunny.

    Moving from animal to animal, leading to a wonderful surprise at the end, this charming story engages young readers with both the text and the adorable art.

    A wonderful gift for both young children and their parents, especially every new parent who can’t stop marveling at their baby.

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    © Dan Davis Photography
    JOHANNA SKIBSRUD is the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists as well as the novel Quartet for the End of Time and the short story collections Tiger, Tiger and This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. She is also the author of three poetry collections, including The Description of the World, which won the 2017 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and the Fred Cogswell Award. Originally from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, she currently divides her time between Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Tucson, Arizona. View titles by Johanna Skibsrud
    © Jesse Blackwood
    Sarah Blacker is a writer and editor currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Sarah is donating part of her royalties to Camp Oochigeas, a summer camp for children with cancer. For more information, please visit www.ooch.org. View titles by Sarah Blacker
    JULIE MORSTAD is the author and illustrator of Today, How To and Time Is a Flower, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize, and a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, among other honors. She has illustrated many other beloved stories for children, including Kate DiCamillo’s The Puppets of Spelhorst. In 2018, she illustrated a stamp for Canada Post. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. View titles by Julie Morstad

    Praise

    PRAISE FOR Sometimes We Think You Are a Monkey:

    "Vancouver illustrator Julie Morstad provides beautiful art for this ode to babies. Using her signature nostalgic style and a vibrant palette, Morstad breathes life into the animals on the page. In each colourful spread, she goes beyond what is expressed in the text and supplies a visual clue as to what the next animal will be." --Quill & Quire

    "A tender tribute to infancy, aimed at parents (or grandparents) who want to curl up with a baby and a quiet book." --CM Magazine

    "This sweet, playful story reads like a poem from a parent to a newborn child." --The Children's Bookshelf

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