Karen Patkau at the North York Branch of the TPL

Karen Patkau, author and illustrator of Creatures Yesterday and Today (Tundra Books, 2008), will be reading and signing as part of the Canadian Family Magazine author event at the North York Central Library at 2:00 p.m. on June 4.

Karen Patkau is the award-winning author and illustrator of many books for children. The first book she illustrated was Don’t Eat Spiders by Robert Heidbreder, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Medal. Several of her other books have also won prizes including the Our Choice selections Sir Cassie to the Rescue, Python Play, Creatures Great and Small, and Ringtail along with Dimensional Illustrators Award-winners In the Sea and Seal is Lost. Karen Patkau resides in Toronto.