After It Rains: A Counting Book

Joanne Schwartz grew up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Her first picture book, Our Corner Grocery Store, illustrated by Laura Beingessner, was a Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award finalist. Her recent picture book, Town is by the Sea, illustrated by Sydney Smith, won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, was a Governor General's Literary Award nominee, and a Boston-Globe Horn Book Honoree. Joanne has been a children's librarian for more than thirty years. She lives in Toronto.

Angela Doak is a collage artist and photographer. All of her work is done first as collage, made up of fabric, candy and gum wrappers, misprints, junk mail, and just about anything else that fits the image she?s making. She is also the illustrator of Atlantic Animal ABC and My First Book of Canadian Birds. Angela lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband and two children.