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  • Published: 14 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780735263246
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 30
  • RRP: $14.99

This Is Sadie




Now in board book, the beloved story about a little girl with a big imagination from the award-winning team of Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad.

Now in board book, the beloved story about a little girl with a big imagination from the award-winning team of Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad.

Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under
the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and
visited the world of fairytales. She whispers to the dresses in her closet and talks
to birds in the treetops. She has wings that take her anywhere she wants to go, but
that always bring her home again. She likes to make things -- boats out of boxes
and castles out of cushions. But more than anything Sadie likes stories, because
you can make them from nothing at all. For Sadie, the world is so full of wonderful
possibilities . . . This is Sadie, and this is her story.

  • Published: 14 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780735263246
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 30
  • RRP: $14.99

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Praise for This Is Sadie

PRAISE FOR This Is Sadie:
"This award-winning duo beautifully convey the magic that is to be found in reading or listening to a story....[T]his book is a delight for bedtime as well as an excellent storytime choice paired with Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon and Peter Bently's King Jack and the Dragon...." --Starred Review, School Library Journal

"In Morstad's quietly delightful gouache and watercolor illustrations, black-haired Sadie looks both delicate and strong, pretty and at times androgynous....It's an appealingly rounded glimpse of girlhood that's somehow both timeless and modern." --The New York Times

"As in previous collaborations like When You Were Small and Where You Came From, O'Leary and Morstad put forth a playful, imagination-first portrait of childhood, introducing a girl named Sadie who is equally at home in the expanses of her mind as she is in the outside world." --Publishers Weekly


  • Selected, Buzzfeed's list of 25 Absurdly Delightful Books to Read With Kids, 2015
  • Most Anticipated: 2015 Kids' Books Spring Preview, 49th Shelf
  • Shortlisted for the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Children's/YA Literature, 2016
  • Selected, Eric Carle Museum's Picture Books We Love