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Children's Book Illustration


Published children's books:

When Heaven Smiled on Our World 
       A nostalgic account of Christmas in rural 1800's Québec. 
Written by Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1992. For a bigger view, click on the image.
 
 
Goldilocks & The Three Bears
An old folktale that has seen many variations since its beginnings; here is a new and charming one.
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1989. For a bigger view, click on the image.
 
A Christmas Crisis
Mrs. Santa requests a turn at the sleigh.
Written by Pam Calabrese MacLean, Hamboyan Publ., 1989.
For a bigger view, click on the image.
 
The Cat From Kosovo
A true story about a cat smuggled into Nova Scotia from Kosovo in May 1999.
Written by Mary-Jane Hampton, Nimbus Publ., due out in September 2000.  For a bigger view, click on the image.
 

In the Works...

 Tamara has also done illustrations for a yet-to-be-published book called: The Acadian Lorax, The Maritime Forest Community: Living With and From the Forest,  a conservation vision headed by Soren Bondrup-Neilson, of the Biology Dept, Acadia University, NS.
 

And...

     Tamara is currently working on writing and illustrating an unconventional book, in partial collaboration with musician/writer/artist partner, Daniel Heikalo, to be in both English and in French, and possibly German, with the help of the fabulous Heike Ortscheid.  A rich and zany series of eccentric, but not entirely far-fetched adventures, as a perfect forum for Tamara's style.  For a bigger view, click on the image.
 

What else?

     A collection of a nearly complete revisited nursery rhymes, in Tamara's whimsical style, waiting for an interested publisher...

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