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In this engaging nonfiction picture book, five young friends -- Nick, Yulee, Pedro, Sally and Martin -- spend the day traveling around their neighborhood and participating in activities designed to raise money for their local library. Along the way, they learn about the people and places that make up their community and what it means to be a part of one. A map opens the story, with each of the places the children will be visiting labeled, including the gas station, retirement home, school, police station, soccer field, community garden and, of course, the library! Then each of the following spreads features a different location, detailed in a bright, busy illustration. Illustration captions expand the locations' connections to the concept of community.



About the Author

Scot Ritchie

Scot Ritchie is an award winning illustrator/author who lives in Vancouver Canada. Many of Scot's 65 books have been translated into French, Korean, Indonesian, Polish, Finnish, Arabic and Dutch.Scot has been published by Canada's top publishers including Groundwood, Kids Can Press, Pajama Press, Owl Kids, Annick Press, Scholastic and Harbour Publishing. He has also worked with the National Film Board of Canada and exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada.In 2020 Scot's book Follow That Bee! was given the Children's Science Picture Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize as a FinalistIn 2019 Follow That Bee was also a Best Books for Kids & Teens, Starred Selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Winner.In 2010 'Follow that Map!', a book Scot wrote and illustrated, was nominated for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non Fiction. His book "Let's Go!' (written by Lizann Flatt) was chosen as the 2009 give-away Book of the Year by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. This honour involves a special print run of half a million books - one given to every grade one student in Canada.In 2008 Scot was chosen as artist of the year by British Columbia Library Association for their Summer Reading Club.



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