Rainbow Shoes by Maple Ridge author Tiffany Stone has been nominated for a B.C. Book Prize.
The beautifully illustrated book is up for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature award, which will be judged by Dianna Bonder (another children’s author with Maple Ridge roots), Marguerite Ruurs and Yukiko Tosa.
Published by Vancouver’s Tradewind Books, Rainbow Shoes was published last year and is Stone’s third book of children’s poetry.
What to wear? What to choose? Pick a pair of rainbow shoes. Or purple pants from aunts in France that make you want to strut and prance. Pink pj’s for pirate naps with pockets to hide treasure maps. Red rubber boots, the robot kind. All these and more are clothes you’ll find in Stone’s colour-full book of wearable rhymes.
Rainbow Shoes is illustrated by Stefan Czernecki, an illustrator and author who has published more than 30 books for children.
The book is up against Gift Days by Kari-Lynn Winters; Hey Canada! by Vivien Bowers; Maggie’s Chopsticks by Alan Woo; What’s Up, Bear?: A Book About Opposites by Frieda Wishinsky. Winners will be announced in May.