Looking for Loons - by Jennifer Lloyd (Paperback)

About the Book

This lovely story about a family enjoying nature together at little cottage on a lake, told in rich watercolors, is now available in paperback!

Book Synopsis

Looking for Loons is now available in paperback! Just after sunrise a boy ventures to the front porch of his family cottage to scan the misty lake with an old pair of binoculars. He is looking for loons. As he waits, his other pajama-wearing family members join him, and together they experience the fascinating sights and sounds of nature.

Review Quotes

Praise for the hardcover edition of Looking for Loons:

Winner of one of the Canadian Toy Testing Council's 2009 top ten "Great Books for Children" awards!

"If this book doesn't have you wanting to rent a cabin in the woods, I don't know what will. Jennifer Lloyd deftly describes a family enjoying nature as the surrounding woods wake up. I felt a connection to Patrick waiting for the loons, as I remembered nighttime excursions to watch for meteor showers or try to spot owls. Kirsti Anne Wakelin's warm illustrations complement Lloyd's imagery, and her sketchbook like endpapers are a real treat."
Scholastic book review

"A sensory feast, from the sunlight on a pillow to the bang of a cast-iron pan on the story."
Cottage Life magazine

"Luminous watercolors are an excellent match for the natural beauty of the tale's setting...a very attractive and well-designed book."
Quill & Quire

"Looking for Loons perfectly distills the magic of an early autumn cottage porch, watching the world wake up. Silence disturbed only by lake animals, coolness in the air before the day's heat starts up, it's a wonderful hold-your-breath instant that seems to stretch while dew drips off the branches, and inside, bacon sizzles. Local artist Kirsti Anne Wakelin's exquisite watercolours span every shade of fall's palette, with delicate tableaux of stillness and possibility.
Georgia Straight

"Looking for Loons is a gentle story honoring the serenity of natural spaces."
Resource Links

"Poetic and beautiful"
Menasha Kids

About the Author

Jennifer Lloyd has written several picture books, including Looking for Loons, Ella's Umbrellas (an Alcuin Award winner, and a Rainforest of Reading and Christie Harris Children's Literature Prize nominee), The Best Thing About Kindergarten, and Taffy Time. She is also the author of the Murilla Gorilla series of early readers, which have won multiple Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design. When she is not at her writing desk, she works as a kindergarten teacher in Blainville, Québec. You can find out more about Jennifer's books at www.jenniferlloyd.ca.

Kirsti Anne Wakelin is a freelance designer, writer and illustrator. She has illustrated several picture books, including Looking for Loons and Dream Boats, which was a 2014-2015 Chocolate Lily Award nominee. She lives in Vancouver, BC.