Samuel Larochelle is a novelist, biographer, screenwriter, poet, journalist, radio/TV columnist, cultural entrepreneur, animator, lecturer, and trainer. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.Eve Patenaude spent her childhood in Montérégie and her adolescence in Estrie. She is an author and illustrator, but also a linguistic and editorial editor. She loves books, drawing, embroidery, animals, winter, cozy knitwear and sipping a hot cup of steaming tea while looking out the window. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

FINALIST for the Prix Espiègle 2023, given by Quebec school libraries to reward daring children's books of great literary quality."A hopeful story about climate anxiety.” —Kiss the Book Jr.“An invaluable mental health and ecological awareness tool... highly recommended."—Midwest Book ReviewStrikes the tricky balance of acknowledging the reality of the climate crisis without falling into the despair it can certainly engender...captures the surreal, lonely experience of feeling helpless in the face of tragedy. There are no pat answers here, but the ending buoys the story with the possibilities of a radically different future that is perhaps not as grim as Florent—and others—fear it will be."—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Samuel Larochelle is a novelist, biographer, screenwriter, poet, journalist, radio/TV columnist, cultural entrepreneur, animator, lecturer, and trainer. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.Eve Patenaude spent her childhood in Montérégie and her adolescence in Estrie. She is an author and illustrator, but also a linguistic and editorial editor. She loves books, drawing, embroidery, animals, winter, cozy knitwear and sipping a hot cup of steaming tea while looking out the window. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

FINALIST for the Prix Espiègle 2023, given by Quebec school libraries to reward daring children's books of great literary quality."A hopeful story about climate anxiety.” —Kiss the Book Jr.“An invaluable mental health and ecological awareness tool... highly recommended."—Midwest Book ReviewStrikes the tricky balance of acknowledging the reality of the climate crisis without falling into the despair it can certainly engender...captures the surreal, lonely experience of feeling helpless in the face of tragedy. There are no pat answers here, but the ending buoys the story with the possibilities of a radically different future that is perhaps not as grim as Florent—and others—fear it will be."—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Samuel Larochelle is a novelist, biographer, screenwriter, poet, journalist, radio/TV columnist, cultural entrepreneur, animator, lecturer, and trainer. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.Eve Patenaude spent her childhood in Montérégie and her adolescence in Estrie. She is an author and illustrator, but also a linguistic and editorial editor. She loves books, drawing, embroidery, animals, winter, cozy knitwear and sipping a hot cup of steaming tea while looking out the window. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.

FINALIST for the Prix Espiègle 2023, given by Quebec school libraries to reward daring children's books of great literary quality."A hopeful story about climate anxiety.” —Kiss the Book Jr.“An invaluable mental health and ecological awareness tool... highly recommended."—Midwest Book ReviewStrikes the tricky balance of acknowledging the reality of the climate crisis without falling into the despair it can certainly engender...captures the surreal, lonely experience of feeling helpless in the face of tragedy. There are no pat answers here, but the ending buoys the story with the possibilities of a radically different future that is perhaps not as grim as Florent—and others—fear it will be."—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books