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Jan L Coates Author

With her novels for young people, Jan L. Coates has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Ann Connor Brimer Award, and earned a USBBY Outstanding International Book selection. In 2015 she published her first picture book, The King of Keji. Her second picture book is Sky Pig. Jan lives, writes, and teaches in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Suzanne Del Rizzo is the award-winning author/illustrator of My Beautiful Birds and Birds on Wishbone Street, and the illustrator of several other books for children. Suzanne's dimensional illustrations use polymer clay, acrylic, and other mixed media to bring rich texture and imagination to her books. She lives in Oakville, Ontario.