• Biography & Books

Kim La Fave, a Governor General’s Award-winning artist, is the illustrator of Amos’s Sweater (by Janet Lunn) — winner of the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for illustration — Follow That Star (by Kenneth Oppel), I Am Small (by Cherrie Fitch), the bestselling The Bones and Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa) and many other children’s books. He lives in Roberts Creek, BC.

Bear Stories:
0889711534 · 1991 · $7.95
"Kim La Fave's illustrations are stylish and arresting, the layout varied and dramatic." -The Globe & Mail
Boys, Girls & Body Science: A First Book About Facts of Life
1550172360 · October 2002 · $18.95
“an excellent resource that will make life easier for parents struggling to find the words to explain reproduction and sex to their children.” -Quill & Quire
Cyril the Seagull:
0889710481 · 1991 · $15.95
Cyril the Seagull has a problem: he gets seasick.
Paul Bunyan on the West Coast:
1550171097 · 1995 · $14.95
For young people and anyone else who loves West Coast mythology, tall tales, stories of the woods, and just plain fun.
Puccini and the Prowlers:
0889711542 · 1992 · $15.95
Just what is a prowler anyway? Puccini decides to keep barking until he finds out!
Silversides: The Life of a Sockeye
0889711526 · 1991 · $6.95
"Kim La Fave's illustrations are stylish and arresting, the layout varied and dramatic." -The Globe & Mail