A glorious landmark piece of publishing with nature poems and gorgeous illustrations to delight and inspire for every day of the year
Once upon a time long, long ago, Fiona Waters was born in Edinburgh
and she has had her nose in a book ever since. When she was about
seven she heard Gabriel Woolf reading The Lady of Shalott on the
radio and from that moment she was hooked on poetry forever. Fiona
has worked with children's books all her life as a bookseller,
publisher, author, reviewer and latterly as the Editorial Director
of Troubadour, choosing the books for book fairs in schools. Now
retired, she has been travelling to all the fairytale places she
dreamt of as a child, like Russia and Japan, reading even more
books with her two cats and still very much enjoying compiling
anthologies.
Frann's first picture book, The Journey Home, was published in 2012
and was shortlisted for both the Waterstones Children's Prize and
the Cambridgeshire 'Read it Again' book Prize. In 2011, she became
the first UK recipient of the 'Sendak Fellowship' and spent a month
living with and learning from Maurice Sendak. She is one fifth of
the design group Zombie Collective who specialize in workshops and
pop-up galleries. They have worked with clients such as Tate
Britain, the House of Illustration, the Design Museum, the British
Library and UCL Hospital, creating workshops for both adults and
children.
Every now and then a book comes along that takes your breath away because it is so gorgeous, that makes you thrill to turn every page because every page is a delight, that makes you want to run outside and read an extract to everyone you meet. Such a book is I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree. - Mia Macrossan, StoryLinks Children's Book Review
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