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Tradewind Books is a small publishing house with its main office in Vancouver, British Columbia. We are distributed in the US through Orca Books Publishers, located in Custer, Washington. We publish quality books with excellent design and illustration: children’s literature that draws upon the North American multi-cultural landscape. Our beautifully illustrated picture books tell stories from around the world: from Mexico to Iraq, China to Russia. We have published notable American children’s authors such as Jane Yolen and Robert San Souci, and distinguished British authors such as Michael Rosen and Adrian Mitchell. In addition to traditional picture books we also publish poetry, chapter books, novels and information books. Some of our more recent titles include four fantasy novels by Simon Rose, and a collection of short stories called What Happened This Summer, by award-winning author Paul Yee. One of our most recent chapter books, Nannycatch Chronicles, by James Heneghan and Bruce McBay, won a recent award for book design. We have been publishing a poetry collection each year, recent titles are Tiffany Stone’s Baad Animals and Floyd the Flamingo and If I Had a Million Onions, by award-winning poet Sheree Fitch, which Kirkus Reviews called “a delight from first line to last” in a starred review. We hope you enjoy our books as much as our readers do. Michael Katz teaches a course called Childrens Book Workshop at the UBC Writing Centre for writers, illustrators, book designers and those interested in working in the industry. Detailed sample course outline. (Adobe Acrobat required) Abby's Birds nominated for the Christie Harris Children's Literature Prize from the BC Book Prizes Congratulations to Tradewind Books for their recent achievements. June, 2006 Quill and Quire interview with Michael Katz. October,2005 "The Bone Collector's Son" was awarded a certificate by Larry Campbell, Mayor of Vancouver, for being a one of three finalists for the City of Vancouver Book Award, 2005 Literary Press Group Tradewind Books is a member of The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and The Association of Canadian Publishers. We accept unsolicited manuscripts that follow certain criteria. To find more information about this please visit the section "for authors and illustrators" in this website.