Obaasan’s Boots

“They had everything taken from them because they were Japanese.” Cousins Lou and Charlotte don’t know a lot about their grandmother’s life. When their Obaasan invites them to spend the day in her garden, she also invites them into their family’s secrets. Grandma shares her experience as a Japanese Canadian during WWII, revealing the painful […]

Chocolate Lily Award Shortlist 2025

I am thrilled that Elliot Jelly-Legs and the Bobblehead Miracle is on the 2024/25 Chocolate Lily Award Shortlist! Here are the other nominees in the novel category: Bigfoot Crossing by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Orca Book Publishers)Elliot Jelly-Legs and the Bobblehead Miracle by Yolanda Ridge, illustrated by Sydney Barnes (Orca Book Publishers)Game Face by Shari Green (Groundwood […]

Weird Rules to Follow

This award-winning book is a series of vignettes from the first person narrator, Amelia Douglas (Mia), during elementary school in the 1980s. Each short chapter gives readers an intimate insight into what it was like to belong to the Indigenous community of Tsimshian while growing up in the small coastal town of Prince Rupert, British […]