West Coast ABCs | Josey Asnong
Description
Ahoy, away we go! Join bestselling children’s book illustrator Jocey Asnong on another colourful journey as she highlights the West Coast region of Canada in this playful alphabet book.
Jocey Asnong's third board book teaches letter recognition while celebrating many familiar landmarks and habitats of coastal British Columbia.Climb with cougars in Cathedral Grove, glide down groomed hills at Grouse Mountain, soar with ravens over rainforests, and watch for whale tails at Wickaninnish Beach. From Vancouver’s harbour to the beaches of Haida Gwaii, and from tidal pools to mountain summits, this early concept board book features many marine mammals, and other ocean dwellers, along with birds and other rainforest animals, in showcasing the amazing diversity of this unique region.
Contributor Bio
Jocey Asnong was raised by a pack of wild pencil crayons in a house made out of paper and stories. After finishing several years of illustration school at Sheridan College, she left the land of maple trees in Ontario and moved to the mountains of Alberta so she could wear mittens most of the year. When she is not chasing her cats around her art cave, she might be caught in a blizzard near Mount Everest, or running away from wild dogs in Mongolia,or peeking out castle windows in Scotland, or sleeping under the stars in Bolivia. Jocey’s books for children include Nuptse and Lhotse in Nepal (winner of a Purple Dragonfly Award), Nuptse and Lhotse Go to the Rockies, Nuptse and Lhotse Go to Iceland, Nuptse and Lhotse Go to the West Coast, Nuptse and Lhotse in the Land of the Midnight Sun,Rocky Mountain ABCs, Rocky Mountain 123s, West Coast ABCs, West Coast 123s, and Ontario ABCs. She lives in Belfast, PEI.
More details
- Heritage Group Distribution
- On Sale: May 07/18
- Board book | 6.52 x 6.55
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Concepts / Alphabet
- 9781771602853
From the shores of the Salish Sea
Located on the West Coast of Canada, along the eastern shores of Vancouver Island, RavenSong brings together time-honoured techniques and sustainable practices to handcraft cold-processed soaps, luxury candles, herbal bath salts and more. Our work is deeply connected to the power of a story. Storytelling is more than words—it is healing and it is ceremony.
