I am thrilled to be able to reveal today the gorgeous cover of my picture book with the fabulous illustrator Ruth Waters, There’s a Tiger out There, to be published by Little Hare in July. The fantastic design is by Hannah Janzen.

The story, which is set around a pair of siblings–an older sister, a younger brother–and a tiger, the power of play, the imagination, and of love–first came to me in a dream, and it’s been a dream too to see my text morph as I worked on it with the wonderful editor Alyson O’Brien, and then so exciting to see it take shape and flesh and colour and such glorious vibrancy in the wonderful details of the visual narrative created by Ruth. Look forward so much to seeing it out there!

Here’s the blurb:

There’s a tiger out there/and her paws are so big

There’s a tiger out there/and her teeth are so sharp

There’s a tiger out there/and she’s about to pounce.

Run!