Spend quality time with your kids! Increase your their cognitive development! Improve their language skills! Prep them for academic success! Do it all…while supporting these homegrown children’s book authors.
Long Sault’s Erin Lee follows up her debut children’s book, Maggie the Magnificent, with another uplifting tale. In Out of Season, you’ll meet Winnie, a popular and charming fashionista who learns that expressing your true self is more important than living up to what other people want you to be. Available online in softcover ($17.99) and hardcover ($23.99) at Kids Korner in Cornwall and on Amazon.ca.
Father-and-daughter duo Peter and Christyane Wall have teamed up to share the tale of Peter and Paul in their book Potatoes and Tomatoes. Illustrated by Cornwall artist James Lapierre, the book explores the concept of globalization and local sustainability with a child-friendly approach. Buy the softcover ($7.99) or hardcover ($16.49) online.
In Second Chances and Unlikely Friends, a group of down-on-their-luck forest creatures are brought together by Winchester-based author and artist Carrie Keller. Faced with various trials and tribulations, this whimsically illustrated book—Carrie’s fifth—will keep kids enthralled until the very last page. Find the softcover for $20 on her website.
