A Canadian Author Goes To A Baby Shower

maryloudriedger

Sep 17

What does a Canadian author take to a baby shower?

Books for babies by Canadian authors of course!

I'm off to a baby shower to welcome a new great niece into the world today and here's my gift.

Since becoming a member of the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP) I've realized the importance of buying books by Canadian authors, promoting books by Canadian authors and gifting books by Canadian authors. I do it as often as I can.

Stay My Baby is a brand new board book by Lana Button an Ontario author who just began a term as the President of CANSCAIP.

The book has gorgeous photographs of diverse sets of parents all so in love with their babies. In rhyming verse the parents describe how beautiful their children are and how they will always have a special place in their family.

Beryl Young is a British Columbia author who's been very supportive and encouraging to me on my own writing journey. She has written a beautiful book called Show Us Where You Live Humpback. It is illustrated by Sakika Kikuchi.

In the book a mother and child see a humpback whale with her calf as they walk along the ocean and a lyrical story begins to unfold where the lives of the two children, whale and human are described and compared. As the baby whale grows and learns so does the child.

Tasha Spillett-Sumner is a Manitoba author whose book I Sang You Down From the Stars uses lovely poetic text to tenderly tell the story of a mother awaiting the birth of her baby. The book's gorgeous illustrations are by Michaela Goode.

As she waits for her baby to be born the mother collects items of special meaning from each season of the year for her child's sacred medicine bundle, a feather in the summer, cedar and sage in the fall, a stone in the spring and in the winter she crafts a star blanket for the baby.