![]() ![]() Nib grew up at Sweetfall, under a busy platform, hearing bedtime stories of Tunnel's End. ![]() The Subway Mouse by Barbara Reid is the story of Nib, the subway mouse, and his search for Tunnel's End: a beautiful yet dangerous, roofless world. Barbara lives in Toronto, but is at home in libraries and classrooms everywhere. In July 2013 Barbara was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.īarbara’s dimensional artwork is photographed for reproduction by photographer, and husband, Ian Crysler. Through workshops and presentations across Canada, Barbara has enjoyed meeting thousands of young readers, writers and fellow plasticine artists. Recently, Picture a Tree received starred reviews in Quill and Quire, the Horn Book, Kirkus and Booklist. Her work has been selected for the IBBY International Honour List, Sydney Taylor Notable Books, the Toronto Public Library’s First and Best List and the Ontario Library Association Best Bets. Her books have been published in over a dozen countries, and her signature plasticine relief illustrations have won many awards including a Governor General’s Award for Illustration and the Ezra Jack Keats Award. She kept at it, and has written and illustrated 19 picture books, illustrating more than 25. As a child, Barbara Reid loved reading, drawing, writing and fooling around with plasticine. ![]()
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