Dippers

Barbara Nichol is the author of One Small Garden, Trunks All Aboard: An Elephant ABC, Dippers, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and Biscuits in the Cupboard, winner of the Mr. Christie’s Book Award. She also wrote and directed the Juno Award-winning platinum recording of Beethoven Lives Upstairs and wrote the book. She has worked extensively in television and radio, including work for “Sesame Street,” and the CBC radio program “Ideas.” She is also the author of The Home for Blind Women, which won a Genie Award for best short film.Barry Moser, National Book Award-winning artist, is the acclaimed illustrator of more than two hundred books for adults and children. Other books illustrated by Mr. Moser include In the Beginning by Virginia Hamilton, a Newbery Honor Book, Messiah: The Wordbook for the Oratorio by George Frideric Handel, and What You Know First by Patricia MacLachlan. He undertook a monumental project for the millennium, a fully illustrated edition of the Bible.