ELIN KELSEY, PhD, is an award-winning author and a leading spokesperson for hope and the environment. In 2014, she co-created #OceanOptimism, a twitter campaign to crowd-source and share ocean conservation successes which has reached 90 million users to date. She frequently works on projects with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Stanford University and the University of Victoria and is passionate about engaging kids in hopeful, science-based, environmental solutions. See more at www.elinkelseyandcompany.com.

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Soyeon Kim is a Korean-born artist and educator currently living in Toronto. She is a graduate of the Visual Arts and Education programs at York University and has participated in artist residences at the Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia), Spark Box Studios (Picton, Ontario) and the Toronto Public Library. She has illustrated a number of children's picture books, including Once Upon an Hour, You Are Stardust, Wild Ideas, Is This Panama?, Sukaq and the Raven, You Are Never Alone and A Last Goodbye. Soyeon won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award in 2013.

 

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"This book is as reassuring as it is gorgeous."

Romper

"The connections that are part of all life on this planet are carefully explained and presented, allowing young readers a chance to think on the way life works and how nature impacts every single thing we do."

Sal's Fiction Addiction

"[You Are Never Alone] celebrates the beauty of the world and reminds young readers that not only are they protected by a 'generous world of green' but that they can make a difference by how they interact with that world."

The Globe and Mail

"You Are Never Alone would make a good addition to a primary unit on ecology or an Earth Day storytime."

Canadian Review of Materials

“A captivating array of mixed-media artwork illustrates the often intangible emotional and physical bonds that exist throughout nature.”

Foreword Reviews - STARRED REVIEW

"it is all elegantly presented in soaring, vivid language...breathtakingly beautiful."

Kirkus Reviews - STARRED REVIEW

“[This] book could serve as a springboard for further scientific investigation.”

Booklist

"Leads readers down a gentle path of reminders that we are not alone — from the clouds in the sky, to the beetles in the ground, to the whales in the ocean."

Green Teacher