Alma and the Beast
Alma's beautiful, hairy world is turned upside down by the arrival of a stranger. From the utterly original imagination of the author-illustrator of Ooko comes a story about celebrating differences and making new friends. For fans of Where the Wild Things Are and Wild.
Alma lives happily in her hairy world, where she can braid the trees, comb the grass, pet the roof and feed her plumpooshkie butterfly. Until one day . . . a hairless, button-nosed beast appears in the garden! At first Alma is scared but when she realizes the beast is lost and misses her hairless home, Alma offers to help her find her way back. As the two take a fantastical journey through the red-headed woods and…
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September 3, 2019ESMÉ SHAPIRO grew up in Laurel Canyon, California and Ontario, Canada, and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Her previous picture books include Ooko, which was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in 2016, Alma and the Beast, Carol and the Pickle-Toad and, most recently, My Self, Your Self, which has received two starred reviews. Esmé also illustrated Yak and Dove by Kyo Maclear, Eliza: The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton by Margaret McNamara and A Garden of Creatures by Sheila Heti. She has exhibited at the Society of Illustrators, and her work has been featured in Taproot and Plansponsor magazines. Esmé lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, Daniel, and their two dogs.
Roy Is Not a Dog
Esmé Shapiro and Daniel Newell Kaufman
Eliza: The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Margaret McNamara; illustrated by Esmé Shapiro; afterword by Phillipa Soo
My Self, Your Self
Esmé Shapiro
A Garden of Creatures
Sheila Heti; illustrated by Esmé Shapiro
Carol and the Pickle-Toad
Esmé Shapiro
Alma and the Beast
Esmé Shapiro
Yak and Dove
Kyo Maclear; illustrated by Esmé Shapiro
Ooko
Esmé Shapiro
Where's Baby? (Oji-Cree edition)
Anne Hunter
Words with Wings and Magic Things
Matthew Burgess; illustrated by Doug Salati
Head Full of Clouds
Joanne Schwartz; illustrated by Afsaneh Sanei
Sunny Wants to Play
Katty Maurey
Sweet Babe!
Robin Rosenthal
Paint with Ploof
Ben Clanton and Andy Chou Musser
Tove and the Island with No Address
Lauren Soloy
Boy Here, Boy There
Chuck Groenink
An Anishinaabe Christmas
Wab Kinew; illustrated by Erin Hill
Frostfire
Elly MacKay
A Face Is a Poem
Julie Morstad
Whalesong: The True Story of the Musician Who Talked to Orcas
Zachariah OHora
Honk Honk, Beep Beep, Putter Putt!
Rukhsana Khan; illustrated by Chaaya Prabhat
The Spark in Me
Miguel Tanco