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Head Full of Clouds
  • Published: 15 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9781774881613
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $45.00

Head Full of Clouds

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18 Mar 2025
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15 Apr 2025
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From the award-winning author of Town Is by the Sea comes a beautiful and meditative story about seeing the world around you in a new way.

FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! • From the award-winning author of Town Is by the Sea comes a beautiful and meditative story about seeing the world around you in a new way.

A girl wakes up from a dream she can't shake.

Her head is full of clouds.

When she goes outside, the things she normally doesn't pay much attention to suddenly reveal their beauty: the plants growing in the cracks of the sidewalk, the shimmering puddles, the notes from a violin drifting in the air. She revels in this strangeness of the familiar, and eventually her dream comes back to her in all its surrealness.

When she meets a friend, she feels solid and connected again, part of the world — but she doesn't lose the gifts that this strange morning gave her: the quietly profound wonder of the everyday and the joy of being present.

Joanne Schwartz's lyrical text and Afsaneh Sanei's gorgeous art are a dreamy pairing that will reward readers with something special in every read.
  • Published: 15 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9781774881613
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the authors

Joanne Schwartz

JOANNE SCHWARTZ grew up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Her first picture book, Our Corner Grocery Store, was a Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award finalist. Her picture book Town Is by the Sea won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and was a Governor General’s Literary Award nominee and a Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree. She is also the author of the picture book Head Full of Clouds. Joanne has been a children’s librarian for more than thirty years, and she lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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Praise for Head Full of Clouds

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES FOR Town Is By the Sea by Joanne Schwartz:

  • TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
  • Governor General's Literary Award nominee
  • Boston Globe-Horn Book Honoree
  • Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award
  • Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2019 nominee
  • Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration
  • New York Times Best Illustrated Book

"Hauntingly beautiful." —Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

"A quiet book that will stay with readers long after they have closed it." —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

"In Schwartz's lyrical, wistful account, there's no sense of injustice or complaint — only a note of resignation. It's a sensitive way of helping readers understand that, for some, the idea of choosing a career is a luxury." —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW