World of Mindfulness (A World Of...Values to Grow On, 2) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Erin Alladin is the Associate Editor at Pajama Press.

Suzanne Del Rizzo has always loved getting her hands messy. She traded her job in scientific research for a career in children’s illustration, using Plasticine, polymer clay, and other mixed media to bring rich texture and imagination to her books. Her picture book My Beautiful Birds was a New York Times selection and won the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature and the SCWBI Crystal Kite Award, among many other honours. Suzanne lives in Oakville, Ontario.

Author/Illustrator Rebecca Bender is best known for her award-winning Giraffe And Bird books. Her illustrations also grace Slug Days, Penguin Days, and Peach Girl. Rebecca graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with the medal for illustration and is now an art director and designer. She lives in Burlington, Ontario, with her husband and two children.

Gabrielle Grimard transformed her love of design into a career in illustration over the course of her studies at Concordia University and the University of Quebec. In 2018, Gabrielle’s picture book Stolen Words won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award and was a finalist for the TD Canadian Children’s Book Award. Not My Girl was a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Her creativity has been applied to children’s publishing, advertising, and educational contexts.

A folk artist and award-winning illustrator who trained at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Tara Anderson is known for her lively and humorous illustrations of animals. Her picture books include That Stripy Cat, Rhino Rumpus, and the award-winning Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That. Tara's illustrations also grace the novels Harvey Comes Home, Harvey Holds His Own, and Sapphire the Great and the Meaning of Life. Tara shares a farmhouse in Tweed, Ontario, with her husband, her young daughter, and several cats.