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Sarabeth's Garage
  • Published: 11 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781774885956
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $45.00

Sarabeth's Garage

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A picture book that celebrates doing your own thing in the face of society's expectations . . . and a sweet story about a girl, her dad, her disapproving grandma and, most importantly, cars.

Sarabeth loves cars.

She loves the way the engines sometimes roar like lions and other times purr like kittens. She loves seeing sports cars that are sleek and fast like cheetahs and boxy SUVs that trundle along like elephants.

And most of all, she loves to help her dad at his garage.

Sarabeth’s grandmother doesn’t approve. She thinks little girls should play with dolls and wear dresses and always have clean hands. But when her car starts grumbling like a walrus instead of purring like a kitten, who will be there to help?

A delightful story about an independent and spirited girl who has no time for the limitations that society wants to put on her, and a grandma who gets the opportunity to change her way of thinking.
  • Published: 11 March 2026
  • ISBN: 9781774885956
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the authors

Melanie Florence

MELANIE FLORENCE is an award-winning writer based in Toronto. She is the author of the picture books Sarabeth's Garage, The One About the Blackbird and Missing Nimâmâ, which won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and was a finalist for the First Nation Communities READ award. Her other picture book, Stolen Words, won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, was shortlisted for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was given a starred review by Kirkus, who listed it as one of the best picture books of 2017 to give readers strength.
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Nadia Alam

NADIA ALAM is a second generation Bangladeshi-Canadian. She is an avid daydreamer and meanderer who draws to capture the world as she sees it. She is the illustrator of Sarabeth's Garage; The Wishing Machine; Awake, Asleep; Mauntie and Me; and The House Without Lights. She lives in Toronto with her two lovely kids and a dog named Momo.
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Praise for Sarabeth's Garage

AWARDS FOR Melanie Florence:

  • American Indian Youth Literature Award (for Jordin Tootoo)
  • TD Canadian Children's Literature Award 
  • Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award 
  • Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award 

PRAISE FOR Missing Nimâmâ written by Melanie Florence:

  • TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, Winner 
  • OLA Golden Oak Award, Winner 
  • 2017 First Nation Communities READ Award, Finalist

AWARDS FOR Melanie Florence:

  • American Indian Youth Literature Award (for Jordin Tootoo)
  • TD Canadian Children's Literature Award 
  • Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award 
  • Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award 

PRAISE FOR Missing Nimâmâ written by Melanie Florence:

  • TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, Winner 
  • OLA Golden Oak Award, Winner 
  • 2017 First Nation Communities READ Award, Finalist