The Senior Homemaker teaches her granddaughters how to cook, bake, tend a vegetable garden, spin yarn, weave cloth, twist plant fibres into rope, and milk goats and sheep.
Pharaohs and Foot Soldiers: One Hundred Ancient Egyptian Jobs You Might Have Desired or Dreaded
art by Martha Newbigging
written by Kristin Butcher
Annick 2009
Ballplayers and Bonesetters: One Hundred Ancient Aztec and Maya Jobs You Might Have Adored or Abhorred
art by Martha Newbigging
written by Laurie Coulter
Annick 2007
Cowboys and Coffin Makers: One Hundred 19th Century Jobs You Might Have Feared or Fancied
art by Martha Newbigging
written by Laurie Coulter
Annick 2006
• Nominated for the 2009-2010 Red Cedar Award for Non-Fiction
• Nominated for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Award for Non-Fiction
• Finalist for the 2004 Information Book Award (Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada) • Best Children’s Books of the Year 2004 (Bank Street College of Education)
The Dirt on Dirt
art by Martha Newbigging
written by Paulette Bourgeois
Kids Can Press 2008
art by Martha Newbigging
written by Vivian Bowers
Maple Tree Press 2005. Originally published in 1997 by Owl Books
• Best Science Book
American Academy for the Advancement of Science
• Winner of the Science in Society Children's Book Award
Canadian Science Writers' Association
CyberSurfer
art by Martha Newbigging
written by Nyla Ahmad
Owl Books / Maple Tree Press 1996
• Finalist for the 1997 Information Book Award (Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada)