One of my best friends of all time and wildly talented artist Ashley Thimot took on the project of illustrating Snow Day and I’m just so grateful to be experiencing the culmination of this lifelong dream alongside her. It makes it even more exciting and special to co-parent this book baby together! Working with Nimbus Publishing has just been wonderful as well.
This is the official cover, didn’t she do amazing?
I just can’t wait for you all to see the heart we poured into this story.
You can currently pre-order the book at our local independent bookseller Woozles.
The publisher’s synopsis:
A joyful, rhyming story in the vein of Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day, this debut children’s picture book follows an Indigenous family as they enjoy the magic of a winter storm.
All is quiet on the snow-laden street.
Not a single soul makes a teeny-tiny peep.
Then,
With a bound and a bang and a funny kind of twirl
Out comes a bundled-up joyful little girl.
Capturing the magic of a snowfall, Snow Day follows an Indigenous family as they experience all of the delights of a winter’s day. While Mom shovels the driveway and Dad cares for her brother by the fire, a young girl and her dog make snowflake tea, build a snow caterpillar, catch snowflakes on their tongues, and make snow angels. All while the snow continues to fall. At the end of the day, the girl is beckoned inside by the promise of hot chocolate, and regales her family with her adventures’ and dreams of doing it all again tomorrow.
Atmospheric, nostalgic, and full of winter fun, the debut picture book by mixed-Cree journalist, book reviewer, and podcast host Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird is a celebration of Indigenous joy and childhood wonder. Features warm, colourful artwork rendered in traditional gouache and coloured pencil from debut illustrator Ashley Thimot.
Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird 
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