★Governor General’s Literary Award, Kate Greenaway Award winner/ Hans Christian Andersen Award shortlist nominated author-illustrator Sydney Smith join hands with“Canadian Dr.Seuss” Sheree Fitch .
★Awards about the titles:
There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen won the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Mr. Christie's Book Award.
Mabel Murple won the Ann Connor Brimer Award
Music is for Everyone Awarded the Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration, a2016 Rainforest of Reading Selection

Titles in this series:
Music is for Everyone
Toes in My Nose
Mabel Murple
There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen

Willa Wellowby’s house has been overrun by monkeys. They’re ballet dancing, playing the bagpipes, listening to the Beatles, and causing mayhem and destruction all over the house and yard. And the more Willa asks them to leave, the more havoc they wreak. She calls the police, the RCMP, the FBI, and Scotland Yard to get rid of these monkeys…but when the Mounties finally show up, it’s Willa who’s in trouble!

First published in 1992, There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen won the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Mr. Christie Award for Best Canadian Children’s book, ages 8 and under. This new softcover edition will introduce the bestselling book to a whole new generation.

Sheree Fitch is an award-winning poet, storyteller, and educator. Her picture books, novels, and plays have delighted both children and adults since 1987. Sheree lives with her husband, Gilles, in River John, Nova Scotia, on their hobby farm, Happy Doodle Do, with a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a few other critters. They run a seasonal book store, Mabel Murple's Book Shoppe and Dreamery, which highlights storytelling, literacy, Atlantic Canadian books and writers.

Sydney Smith is the author-illustrator of I Talk Like a River and Small in the City and the illustrator of Inkling by Kenneth Oppel, Smoot, A Rebellious Shadow by Michelle Cuevas, Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson, The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart, and Look-Out for the Fitzgerald Trouts and Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts by Esta Spalding, among others. Sydney was born in Nova Scotia and has an Interdisciplinary BFA from NSCAD University. Children’s illustration has always been his full time passion but sometimes you can find his work in magazines, on festival posters or on album covers. Sydney also plays a little banjo, stands on his hands, and can ride his bike really fast. Sydney received the 2019 Ezra Jack Keats Award, and his second Governor General’s Literary Award (Canada’s oldest and most prestigious literary award). Small in the City was listed as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, the New York Public Library, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, The Horn Book and many other publications. Earlier books include Smoot, Sidewalk Flowers, one of the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of 2015, and Town Is by the Sea, the 2018 Kate Greenaway Award winner and also a The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2017. Originally from Nova Scotia, Smith lives and works in Halifax, Canada.