Join us at the shop for a very special book launch where both Author Rachel Poliquin and Illustrator Julie Morstad will be in attendance. As you've come to expect from our Book Launches, there will be complementary crafts for anyone who purchases a book in advance.
We'll hear a reading from Rachel and work together at the craft table with Julie on a special "Orange" themed craft for everyone! Purchase your book today and we'll see you on November 2nd.
Crafts & Reading with Rachel and Julie
Sunday November 2nd
2-4pm
"A tour de force through world history, the natural world, and cultural studies." —School Library Journal (starred review)
Prepare your senses for a delicious shock of orange in all its glory and variety—in a playful color tribute destined to wow art and design enthusiasts of all ages.
Look closely. The color orange is all around you, not only in the natural world—from fruit and foxes to minerals and mushrooms—but in the human-engineered world, too, from works of art to religious ceremonies to astronaut survival suits. Ranging through time and circumnavigating the globe, witty stream-of-consciousness text and jaunty illustrations explore color through surprising social, historical, cultural, and artistic lenses. With more than thirty vivid examples and a gentle introduction to color theory, this eye-opening voyage into the heart of orange is a clever appeal to experience other colors—and the world at large—with an open and expansive mind.
Rachel Poliquin is a writer engaged in all things orderly and disorderly in the natural world. With a cross-disciplinary background in visual arts, cultural history and natural history, she holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia and a Post-Doctoral Degree in History from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rachel is the author of the Polite Predators and Superpower Field Guide series, and other children’s books including Beastly Puzzles. She has also written for Science Friday, The Believer Magazine, and the New York Times. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Julie Morstad is the author and illustrator of Today, How To and Time Is a Flower, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize, and a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, among other honors. She has illustrated many other beloved stories for children, including Kate DiCamillo’s The Puppets of Spelhorst. In 2018, she illustrated a stamp for Canada Post. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
