We'll All Go Sailing

Overview

Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer join forces with Kim LaFave in this colourful tour of the seas. The young narrator and his friends, Maggee and Jesse, travel to a myriad of places to look at sea life that is every colour of the rainbow. Children will delight in the pink octopus, the blue manatee, and the orange barracuda, to name but a few.

Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer have created a rhythmic poem (in the same vein as their ealier collaboration, Fishes in the Ocean) that will encourage the very youngest of new readers. Together with Kim La Fave's bold and playful illustrations, this delightful poem will . . .

make a fine book To show what we'll see, When we all go sailing On the rainbow seas.

Author Biography

Richard Thompson is the popular author of many books for young readers, including When They Are Up, The Night Walker, The Follower, Fishes in the Ocean, and There is Music in a Pussycat.
Maggee Spicer has previously collaborated with her husband Richard Thompson on When They Are Up and Fishes in the Ocean. She is an elementary school teacher and lives with her husband and daughter Jesse in Prince George, British Columbia.
Kim LaFave is a prolific picture book artist with many titles to his name, including Amos's Sweater, Ben Over Night, and Big Ben, which earned him the Mr. Christie's Book Award Silver Seal. He has also won the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award, and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. Kim lives on the west coast of Canada, in Robert's Creek, British Columbia.