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Celebrate Earth Day with the Peregrine Falcon

April 22nd, 2016

Earth Day is celebrated worldwide every year to give global citizens the chance to demonstrate their support for and dedication to environmental protection. This year Canada is participating in an ambitious campaign to assist in planting 7.8 billion trees—one for every person on the planet—by 2020. With so much work to do, it’s easy to […]

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Five Pajama Press titles are Bank Street Best Books

March 27th, 2015

Five Pajama Press titles have been selected for the Bank Street College of Education’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2015 Edition: Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That Written by Victoria Allenby, illustrated by Tara Anderson Under Five, Animals (Fiction) Skydiver: Saving the Fastest Bird in the World Written and illustrated by Celia […]

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Skydiver nominated for the Green Earth Book Award

March 27th, 2015

Skydiver: Saving the Fastest Bird in the World by Celia Godkin has been nominated for the Green Earth Book Award. Skydiver is a non-fiction picture book that chronicles the successful efforts of scientists to reintroduce peregrine falcons to their former territories in North America after the population was depleted by the effects of DDT. The […]

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Skydiver and A Brush Full of Colour nominated for the Hackmatack Award

March 27th, 2015

Two Pajama Press books have been nominated for the 205–16 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award. Skydiver: Saving the Fastest Bird in the World, a picture book illustratedby Celia Godkin, chronicles the successful efforts of scientists to reintroduce peregrine falcons to their former territories in North America after the population was depleted by the effects of DDT. […]

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Skydiver “An attractive, informative picture book.”—Booklist

September 17th, 2014

“This encouraging animal-rescue story features the world’s fastest animal: the peregrine falcon. Set in the era when scientists realized that DDT was thinning eggshells and endangering many bird species, the story is told in a simple, immediate manner, focusing mainly on the birds rather than on their rescuers. Two peregrines meet at their cliffside nesting […]

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