Footpath Flowers

This beautiful, touching book looks through the eyes of a child whose innocent delight at the world brings a sense of childlike wonder into every day life. – Alan Nolan * Inis *
Footpath Flowers is a superb wordless book; its quiet beauty, its narrative full of unassuming grace will fill its readers with a real sense of wonder and yearning for those fleeting voiceless moments of perfection. – Library Mice * Library Mice *
It’s a powerful reminder of the importance of appreciating our surroundings and the mutual gift of giving – two lessons which you certainly want your child to learn. – Junior * Junior *
Full of poignancy, this is a book to revisit and to cherish. – Jill Bennet * Red Reading Hub *
This is an unusual and delightful book which will give the adult and small person of five or six lots to talk about as they go through the pages. – Newbury Weekly News * Newbury Weekly News *
This is [a] book to look at over [and over] again – there are new discoveries every time. – Independent Bookshop Week supplement * The Guardian *
“…this is an anthem for kindness, for beauty in unlikely places and for the things a child seas that adults don’t. – Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *
Footpath Flowers is a beautiful book that retains its simplicity whilst also conveying a powerful message. * Armadillo Magazine *
There is a thoughtful quality to this wordless, mostly black and white picture book, the gentle story of a little girl picking wild flowers on a walk home with her father […] There’s much to discuss around this story, which has a pleasingly reflective tone and a fine-tuned feeling that all is good in the world. * The Guardian *
another exquisite wordless book for children, conveying with simple images and colours, the importance of noticing the beauty in everyday unlikely places. Like the Man with the Violin, it is an ode to the wonder of childhood and the importance of seeing beauty in places others may not. * Culture Baby *

JonArno Lawson is a Canadian award-winning poet and writer who has published several works of verse. His collections for children include Black Stars in a White Night Sky and The Man in the Moon Fixer’s Mask, and for adults, Inklings and Love is an Observant Traveller. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three children.

Sydney Smith is the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal. He has illustrated multiple children’s books, including Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, the winner of the 2017 Kate Greenaway Medal, The White Cat and the Monk, written by Jo Ellen Bogart, I Talk Like a River and My Baba’s Garden, both written by Jordan Scott, Do You Remember?, Island Storm written by Brian Floca, and the acclaimed Footpath Flowers, which was a New York Times Children’s Book of the Year and a winner of the Governor General Award for Illustration.

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