One Good Thing
May 4, 2020
Karen Patkau’s illustration from Who Needs an ICEBERG? An Arctic Ecosystem is featured on Teaching Kids News at https://teachingkidsnews.com/2020/05/04/one-good-thing-barley-and-ethel/
2020 Shining Willow Award
April 5, 2020
Karen Patkau’s Triceratops Stomp is a finalist for the 2020 Shining Willow Award. The Shining Willow Award is one of three Saskatchewan Young Readers Choice Awards, the Shining Willow Award (young to grade 3), the Diamond Willow Award (grades 4-6), and the Snow Willow Award (grades 7-9). Also known as the Willow Awards, the award program allows students throughout Saskatchewan to read and vote for their favourite books.
2017 Green Book Festival
June 10, 2017
Who Needs a Reef? Coral Reef Ecosystem is the first runner-up at the 2017 GREEN BOOK FESTIVAL – an annual competition honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive action on the changing worldwide environment.
2016 Green Book Festival
June 25, 2016
Who Needs a Desert? A Desert Ecosystem is the first runner-up at the 2016 GREEN BOOK FESTIVAL – an annual competition honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive action on the changing worldwide environment.
2015 Green Book Festival
May 15, 2015
Who Needs a Prairie? A Grassland Ecosystem is an honor book at the 2015 GREEN BOOK FESTIVAL – an annual competition honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive action on the changing worldwide environment.
Three of my ecosystem books have been nominated for the 2015 Silver Falchion™ Readers Choice Award . If you would be so kind as to vote for one of them, please go to:
• Click on the Children’s Picture Book category
• Scroll down list of titles to: Who Needs a Desert?, Who Needs a Prairie?, Who Needs a Reef?
• Submit vote
• Cutoff date for online voting is October 28, 2015.
April 20, 2015
Who Needs a SWAMP? A Wetland Ecosystem has been recommended by an expert panel of educators, booksellers and authors as one of the best books for kids on science.
Green Earth Book Award Shortlist 2015
March 23, 2015
Who Needs a REEF? A Coral Reef Ecosystem is shortlisted for the 2015 GREEN EARTH BOOK AWARD. The Nature Generation (formerly the Newton Marasco Foundation) created the Green Earth Book Award to promote books that inspire children to grow a deeper appreciation, respect, and responsibility for their natural environment. This is an annual award for books that best raise awareness of the beauty of our natural world and the responsibility we have to protect it.
helloSprout features One Watermelon Seed
July 21, 2014
Grow a love of gardening with kids of all ages. Read gardening books together – it is an easy and enjoyable way to get your young child excited about gardening and introduce some of the basic concepts. You can even read those books together outside in or near the garden.
2014 Green Book Festival
May 7, 2014
Who Needs a JUNGLE? A Rainforest Ecosystem is an honor book at the 2014 GREEN BOOK FESTIVAL – an annual competition honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive action on the changing worldwide environment.
2015 Kentucky Bluegrass Award
March 20, 2014
A Good Trade, written by Alma Fullerton and illustrated by Karen Patkau, Pajama Press 2012 is a Kentucky Bluegrass Award nominated title. A student choice program, the KBA promotes and encourages students in kindergarten through grade 12 to read a variety of quality literature.
Canadian Toy Testing Council
November 13, 2013
Karen Patkau’s CREATURES Great and Small, CREATURES Yesterday and Today, Who Needs an ICEBERG? and Who Needs a JUNGLE? are Canadian Toy Testing Council recommended reads for 2014.
2014 Forest of Reading
October 15, 2013
A Good Trade, written by Alma Fullerton and illustrated by Karen Patkau, Pajama Press 2012 is a Blue Spruce Award nominated title.
2013 Green Book Festival
May 7, 2013
Who Needs an ICEBERG? An Arctic Ecosystem is an honor book at the 2013 GREEN BOOK FESTIVAL – an annual competition honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive action on the changing worldwide environment.
Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada 2013
Information Book Award Finalists
April 19, 2013
The Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award is given to a book that arouses interest, stimulates curiosity, captures the imagination, and fosters concern for the world around us. The award’s aim is to recognize excellence in Canadian publishing of non-fiction for children. The criteria include accuracy, clarity, imaginative approach, appropriateness of organization and format, and sensitivity to ethnocentric and gender biases. Who Needs a Swamp?, Who Needs an Iceberg? and Who Needs a Jungle? – written and illustrated by Karen Patkau, and A Good Trade – written by Alma Fullerton and illustrated by Karen Patkau have been nominated for 2013.
White Ravens 2013 Choice
March 29, 2013
A Good Trade, written by Alma Fullerton and illustrated by Karen Patkau, Pajama Press, 2012 ISBN 978-0-9869495-9-3 Uganda – Civil War – Country life – Humanitarian Aid The White Ravens is an annual catalogue featuring 250 new and notable titles of children’s and young adult literature from over 50 countries. The language specialists of the International Youth Library (IYL) in Munich, Germany select the books in the course of the previous year from the incoming donations to acclaim the most noteworthy and remarkable ones. Ten Canadian-published titles, six in English and four in French, were honoured this year.
2013 Forest of Reading
October 15, 2012
Who Needs a SWAMP? A Wetland Ecosystem written and illustrated by Karen Patkau, Tundra Books 2012 is a Silver Birch Express Award nominated title.
2012 Green Book Festival
May 7, 2012
Who Needs a SWAMP? A Wetland Ecosystem is an honor book at the 2012 GREEN BOOK FESTIVAL – an annual competition honoring books that contribute to greater understanding, respect and positive action on the changing worldwide environment.
Sculpting Hand Charades
April 15, 2011
Kari-Lynn Winters, PhD lead a book talk/drama session for the Toronto Public Library to teach librarians strategies for book talks in Toronto schools. CREATURES Yesterday and Today, Patkau, K. (2008) Tundra Books and CREATURES Great and Small, Patkau, K. (2006) Tundra Books – were suggested books for Sculpting Hand Charades. This strategy was linked to learning styles: bodily/kinesthetic, visual, interpersonal and spatial/mathematical.
‘Ready, Set, Learn’
April 6, 2009
The new edition of One Watermelon Seed – written by Celia Barker Lottridge and illustrated by Karen Patkau, has been selected by British Columbia’s Ministry of Education for the ‘Ready, Set, Learn’ program. Over 30,000 families throughout the province will receive a copy of the book for their preschoolers.
2008 Shining Willow Award
February 4, 2008
Karen Patkau’s CREATURES Great and Small has been nominated for the 2008 Shining Willow Award. The Shining Willow Award is one of three Saskatchewan Young Readers Choice Awards, the Shining Willow Award (grades 3), the Diamond Willow Award (grades 4-6), and the Snow Willow Award (grades 7-9). Also known as the Willow Awards, the award program allows students throughout Saskatchewan to read and vote for their favorite books.
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