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This Is Sadie
  • Published: 14 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780735263246
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 30
  • RRP: $22.99

This Is Sadie

Formats & editions
EBook
12 May 2015
Hardback
1 Sept 2015
Board Book
14 May 2018
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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: $22.99
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About the authors

Sara O'Leary

SARA O'LEARY is the author of many beloved picture books for children, including This Is Sadie, which was adapted by the New York City Children's Theatre, and its follow-up, This Is Ruby. Among her most recent books for children are Gemma and the Giant Girl, the recipient of several honors in Canada, and Maud and Grand-Maud, which received three starred reviews. Sara is the 2024 recipient of the 2024 Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. She is also the author of the adult novel A Ghost in the House. A graduate of the UBC Creative Writing Program, she has taught screenwriting and writing for children at Concordia University in Montreal.
portrait photo of Sara O'Leary

Julie Morstad

JULIE MORSTAD is the author and illustrator of Today, How To and Time Is a Flower, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize, and a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, among other honors. She has illustrated many other beloved stories for children, including Kate DiCamillo’s The Puppets of Spelhorst. In 2018, she illustrated a stamp for Canada Post. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
portrait photo of Julie Morstad

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." —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

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