Joanne Schwartz
Joanne Schwartz is an award-winning author from Cape Breton, NS.
Joanne Schwartz is a children's author and librarian from Cape Breton, NS. Her children's book, Town Is by the Sea, won the $50K TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2018 and was a Governor General Literary Award finalist. Illustrated by Sydney Smith, the picture book tells the story of a day in the life of a young maritime boy and the things he sees in his seaside coal-mining town.
- Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith win $50,000 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
- Jan Thornhill's favourite book of 2017 was Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz & Sydney Smith
- The best Canadian young adult and children's books of 2017
- How East Coast mining culture inspired Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith's beautiful picture book
- Grade 4 and 5 students in Halifax get to know coal mining culture through Town Is by the Sea
- Sydney Smith and Joanne Schwartz's favourite Canadian book of 2018: The Funeral by Matt James
Books by Joanne Schwartz
Interviews
Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith have won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for their illustrated look at one boy's experience of East Coast mining culture. 9:10
Students at Prospect Road Elementary School share their impressions of Town Is by the Sea, a picture book by Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith. 4:06
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