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A Person Can Be ...

Authored by Kerri Kokias

Illustrated by Carey Sookocheff

Specs

* Ages: 4-8

* Grade Level: PS-3

* Hardcover: 32 pages

* Publisher: Kids Can Press

* Pub. Date: Oct. 4, 2022

* ISBN: 9781525304873

* Language: English

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The Book

This is a wonderful book highlighting how a person can be feeling small and strong, naughty and nice, homesick and adventurous, imperfect and treasured, and busy but bored all at the same time, just to name a few. It is a great way to teach kids about their emotions and feelings and this knowledge can spark meaningful conversations about how to understand and manage them.

The illustrations are simple and enrich the narrative greatly. This beautiful story would be a terrific asset in a classroom and school library. The two word text is very powerful and the added illustrations visually round out their meanings perfectly.

"This thoughtful book shows how you can be two things at once and always yourself." I love it and highly recommend it.

Storywraps Rating - 5 HUGS!

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Meet the Author

Kerri Kokias’s writing features unique structures, playful language, humor, tension, tenderness, simple text and complicated characters. She has a good vision for how text and art can work together to tell a complete story. Kerri credits most of her story ideas to her “fly on the wall” personality. This means she’s both a keen observer of social interactions and a nosey eavesdropper.

Kerri has a degree in psychology and sociology from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and completed an advanced education certificate program in Writing for Children at the University of Washington.

Kerri lives in Seattle, Washington, with her family.
Facebook: @kerri.kokias
Instagram: @kerrikokias
Twitter: @KerriKokias

About the Illustrator

Author-Illustrator Carey Sookocheff was born in Ottawa, but spent her childhood throughout the prairies, moving from Calgary to Maple Creek to Winnipeg. Growing up with a mom who was a librarian and a father who was an avid storyteller, she has always loved to read and create stories. She also grew up loving to draw, often on scrap paper from her dad’s office but also occasionally on the underside of the kitchen table.

Carey graduated from Carleton University with a degree in English literature, studied illustration at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and has been an illustrator for over twenty years. She has illustrated for many publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Carey now creates picture books, and has more than ten books to her credit, including the critically-acclaimed Buddy and Earl series, I Do Not Like Stories, What Happens Next, as well as Wet and Solutions for Cold Feet, which she both wrote and illustrated.

Her latest book, Lost Things, was inspired by the many things Carey has lost over the years, including a pair of tiny Barbie ballet slippers, her wallet, house keys, glasses and her patience. She has also found many things, including a compass, a small brass bell and more than one lost dog.

Carey teaches part time in the Bachelor of Illustration program at Sheridan College. She lives in Toronto, with her husband, two kids and their dog Rosie, and is often on the lookout for lost things.

Instagram: @csookocheff

Twitter: @CareySookocheff
Facebook: @CareySookocheffIllustration

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