July 8th, 2016
Rating: 1-5: 5 (5=starred review) Genre: Nonfiction Picture Book What did you like about the book? A peregrine falcon pair mates and lays eggs. Before the eggs can hatch, they are stolen by a scientist who rappels down a cliff to get them. No, it’s not an evil scientist. Rather, it shows the lengths conservationists were forced to go […]
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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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January 13th, 2016
Pajama Press is pleased to announce that three of our picture books have been nominated for the 2016 Rainforest of Reading Award: Bad Pirate by Kari-Lynn Winters and Dean Griffiths, In a Cloud of Dust by Alma Fullerton and Brian Deines, and Skydiver: Saving the Fastest Bird in the World by Celia Godkin. Inspired […]
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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 […]
Posted in Cat Champions, Graffiti Knight, Moon at Nine, Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, Skydiver
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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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. […]
Posted in A Brush Full of Colour, Skydiver
January 13th, 2015
“Using crisp text and exquisite paintings award winning author and illustrator Celia Godkin tells the story of a pair of peregrine falcons. The book begins with a description of the habits of the birds in springtime. “Together, they swoop and tumble in a dazzling courtship dance.” As the story progresses, Celia seamlessly introduces the concepts […]
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November 21st, 2014
Pajama Press is pleased to congratulate the authors of four of our Spring 2014 titles on being selected for the Fall 2014 edition of Best Books for Kids & Teens. Starred Selection: Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis Starred Selection: Revenge on the Fly by Sylvia McNicoll When Emily Carr Met Woowritten by Monica Kulling […]
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October 30th, 2014
Watch Celia Godkin’s peregrine falcons swoop and dive in the new animated book trailer for Skydiver: Saving the Fastest Bird in the World. Animations by Maryna Nekrasova
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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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