<p Susan Tooke is an award-winning artist and children's book illustrator whose work has been exhibited across North America. In 2003, she received the Halifax Mayor's Award for Illustration, and she is a three-time winner of the Lillian Sheppard Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration, for <em Full Moon Rising, Up Home,</em and <em The City Speaks in Drums.</em She lives in Halifax. Visit <a title="Susan Tooke" href="http://susantookeart.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank" Susan Tooke's art blog</a .</p