HOPSCOTCH wins the QWF Janet Savage Blachford Award For Children's Literature!!!

I am so happy to receive this wonderful award! About Hopscotch, the jurors wrote:

Borrowing from the school story, the fantasy story, the animal story, and even the horror story, among other genres characteristic of the children’s literary canon, Hopscotch provides readers with a story of impressive psychological depth…. It is also a wonderful ode to the child’s imagination and the power of creativity.

The images offer a clever visual exploration of Ophelia’s psyche: they are colourful and luminous when all is right; dark and washed out when things get rough. All is heightened by Gay’s use of many different techniques: watercolour, pencils, and pastels, to name a few, are mixed with great ingenuity to build a rich visual world.