Summer Brings Berries
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Introduce babies and toddlers to the abundance of wild coastal food in this board book featuring vibrant new art by Roy Henry Vickers. Book 7 in the award-winning First West Coast Books series!
From salmonberries and spruce tips to crabs, mussels and spotted prawns, the West Coast is home to wild delicacies. In this sturdy and tactile board book, Roy Henry Vickers and Lucky Budd use rhyming text and colorful imagery to explore and celebrate traditional foods of the West Coast.
Summer Brings Berries is part of the award-winning First West Coast Book series, which helps babies and toddlers learn foundational knowledge (including their ABCs, colors and numbers). Book 7 will have children building vocabulary around taste, food and the wild world around them. Other books in the series include A Flock of Gulls, a Chorus of Frogs, A is for Anemone, Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak, Sockeye Silver, Saltchuck Blue, One Eagle Soaring and Hello Humpback!.
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Roy Henry Vickers is a renowned carver, painter, printmaker and storyteller. He is the illustrator and co-author of Harbour Publishing's popular children's First West Coast Book series and Northwest Coast Legends series, the latter of which were all shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award: Raven Brings the Light in 2014, Cloudwalker in 2015, Orca Chief in 2016 and Peace Dancer in 2017. His other books include Storyteller (2014), Voices from the Skeena (2019) and Ben the Sea Lion (2022), as well as the colouring book Inspired (2025). He lives in Hazelton, BC.