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I've been meaning to share this gem of a picture book for some time. Dojo Daycare, written and illustrated by
Chris Tougas is published by
Owlkids Books.
There is so much to love in this smart, modern, and funny rhyming picture book. It is paced beautifully and you can feel the tempo pick up and then settle down for the ending. I found the framework of the dojo daycare and sympathetic storyline toward the 'master' really inventive. My kids (5 and 3 years old) love rereading to follow the smaller details and mini-plots.
You can track each ninja and their ninja pets at home, the bear as he gets pulled apart (and see where he ends up!), and my kids' favorite part - see the little green fluff coming from one little ninja. Yup. It's a silent but HILARIOUS surprise when you figure out how that last fight starts.
I was given a review copy by the publisher, but my words and opinions are my own.
The Chocolate Lily Book Award is a choice award that showcases and celebrates the best of BC children’s fiction by encouraging BC grade school students to read the shortlisted titles and vote for their favourite at the end of each school year.
This years Chocolate Lily Book Award picture book category was won by Chris Tougas, author and illustrator of Mechanimals, by Orca Book Publishers. Mechanimals also won the Alcuin Design Award children’s category . Congratulations Chris!
Arleen Paré & Chris Tougas Photo by Times Colonist
Mechanimals, a picturebook written and illustrated by Chris Tougas has won the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize. Paul Gould has this to say about Mechanimals.
“Chris Tougas’s Mechanimals represents a trenchant analysis, by way of pastiche and parody, of the modern mania for mechanization in the area of food production. Neo-Marxist critique mixes here with post-deconstructionist play to generate a profoundly unstable, and thus destabilizing, text. Tougas’s Rooster-bot, perhaps his most prescient creation, subverts the paradigm of temporality to which we cling with such desperation in our post-millennial panic.”
Mechanimals which was presented last night at a gala celebration in Victoria, was the only picturebook on the shortlist.
Also presented last night was the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. This was the inaugural year for the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize, sponsored by Bolen Books, the CBA 2007 Bookseller of the Year.
Chris Tougas is also the author of the recently released Art’s Supplies.
Chris Tougas draws for the kids from his new book “Art’s Supplies” at the grand opening of “Once Upon a Huckleberry Bush Bookstore”
The store opened on Main Street in Vancouver the second week of September.
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