Barbara has been involved with the CCBC for many years: she illustrated the book, Gifts, which was the TD Grade One Book Giveaway book of choice in 2011 by the CCBC and did the poster art for TD Canadian Children’s Book Week 2008. She has won a number of prestigious awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Illustration and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award for her book The Subway Mouse. Get Published: The Writing for Children Kitīarbara Reid is an award-winning author and illustrator who resides in Toronto, ON.

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Donate to the David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award.Donate to the Jean Little First Novel Award.Donate to Canadian Children’s Book Week.CCBC Articles of Continuance and By-laws.'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Gillian EngbergĬopyright � American Library Association. Children will enjoy poring over the detailed images of the world from a mouse's viewpoint, and many will see themselves in intrepid Nib, who feels at odds with his cacophonous family and dreams of a sweet, cozy nest of his own. Working in found materials and expertly molded, brightly colored plasticine, she sculpts remarkably expressive characters and a vivid, subterranean world filled with 'thundering trains' and messy people, whose scattered refuse (created from bright scraps of feathers, beads, and food wrappers) ingeniously lines the homes of the mice below the tracks. Reid creates a charming, lively adventure in short, smoothly paced sentences, but it's her marvelous collage illustrations that really bring the characters and richly imagined world to life. Along the way, he meets Lola, a lovely mouse who joins him on his quest, and together they reach open air and start a family. At last, he sets off on a perilous journey, traveling the tunnel to its finish. Nib's fascination with the fabled land grows as he gets older, and he feels increasingly more crowded and restless in his underground community. Subway mouse Nib has grown up listening to bedtime stories about Tunnels End, a 'dangerous, roofless world,' where the air is sublime, the food tasty, and the nests soft and green.

The subway mouse by barbara reid