★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

Singer-songwriter Jill Barber takes young readers through many different kinds
of music—hip hop, jazz, classical, folk—and instruments in an energetic, rhyming
tour. Awarded the Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration, a
2016 Rainforest of Reading Selection, and a Kirkus starred review.

Jill Barber (author)

is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and author with four albums of original music, an album of classic French covers and a bestselling baby board book to her credit.

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.