She writes stories. She paints them too.
“Sometimes I Feel Like a River establishes Daniel as a leading author in the mindfulness genre, a growing group of titles focused on helping kids understand their emotions and fall in love with their environments.”
—Montreal Review of Books
OCTOBER 29th with
TUNDRA BOOKS
A Debut Novel in Verse
MAY 7th with
TUNDRA BOOKS
A 2024
Governor General Literary Awards Finalist
*A Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Picture Book of 2024
“Every worry is addressed and every need is met in this eloquent portrait of the interconnectedness of the living world.” ★ STARRED REVIEW —Publishers Weekly
APRIL 2nd with
GROUNDWOOD BOOKS
*A Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Picture Book of 2024
“A relevant book for a world dealing with environmental crises.” ★ STARRED REVIEW —Quill & Quire
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A RIVER
with Groundwood Books
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
★★★★★
Canadian Review of Materials
* Shortlisted for the 2023 IODE Jean Throop Book Award
* A Quill & Quire 2023 favourite young readers titles of 2023
*2023 TD Summer Reading Club Book Pick
Debut MG Novel
Published by HarperCollins Canada
January 18th, 2022
*2024 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards Nominee
*2023/2024 Red Cedar Book Awards Nominee
*2023/2024 Hackmatack Award Nominee
*2023 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards Nominee
*2023 Silver Birch Fiction Award Nominee
*2023 TD Summer Reading Club Book Pick
*2022 Canadian Children’s Book Centre - A Best Book of the Year
*2022 OLA Best Bets (Ontario Library Association)
*2022 Northern Lights Book Award Winner- Middle School Book of the Year
*Indigo Best Kids Books of 2022
”Forever Birchwood’s message about the value of history and conservation is easily absorbed in this battle between good and evil and small versus mighty. Readers will love this story of spunky girls approaching their teens who, against all odds, face down corruption.” —Highly Recommended—Canadian Review of Materials
Debut Adult Novel
Published by Penguin Random House Canada
March 8th, 2022
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER
*A Globe and Mail - Best Book of 2022
"A deeply felt and personal story from an author who we can only hope has more tales to tell." —Quill and Quire
”This stunning adult debut… is urgent reading for anyone seeking to understand more about the myriad ways European colonization in the 1600s still reverberates today, to devastating effect.” —Globe and Mail
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