Nancy Cote –  Jackson’s Blanket

 The Four Corners Arts Center is pleased to announce a Children’s Book Author Event on March 6^th at 10:00 a.m. at The Meeting House.  Local children’s author Nancy Cote will be reading her latest book Jackson’s Blanket.  Books will be on sale at the event from Baker Books in Dartmouth.  This event is free and open to the public.  Please visit their website www.FourCornersArts.org for more information and directions.

Jackson loves his soft, worn, fuzzy blanket and takes it everywhere he goes. His parents think it’s time to wash it and put it away, but the child won’t hear of it. Then he finds a tiny white kitten in the snow. He wraps it up in his blanket and takes it home. Jackson bathes and feeds the kitten and makes a bed for it using his blanket. The streamlined text and realistic watercolor illustrations come together to show how a boy grows up just a bit when the time is right. “A great addition to most collections.”—Linda Staskus, Parma Regional Library, OH. “The streamlined text and realistic watercolor illustrations come together to show how a boy grows up just a bit when the time is right. A great addition to most collections.” –School Library Journal

Nancy has illustrated over twenty books and has authored four. Some of the awards that her books have earned include: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Awards , ABA “Pick of the Lists”, Sidney Taylor Notable Book, Society of School Librarians International Honor Book, Smithsonian Notable Book, Children’s Book Council & the National Council for Social Studies “Notable Children’s Trade Book, Florida Reading Association Children’s Book Award and the Society of Illustrator’s Museum of American Illustration Original Art “98” exhibit in New York City.  She is a full member of SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) and also the Freelance Artists Network.  She teaches Children’s Book Illustration III at RISD (Cont. Ed.)

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