TIFA Kids! Our Little Kitchen: Jillian Tamaki Re-Release

April 16 – April 30

As a special re-release, our #FestofAuthors20 event with illustrator Jillian Tamaki will be available to watch until April 30 at 11:59pm ET. The event features Tamaki reading from her lively food and community picture book, Our Little Kitchen. Ages 4-8.

Interviewer: Ardo Omer

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Jillian Tamaki is a cartoonist and illustrator from Calgary, Alberta, who now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Her first picture book, They Say Blue, won the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, among many other accolades. She co-created the highly acclaimed graphic novels Skim and This One Summer with Mariko Tamaki and she is the creator of the webcomic SuperMutant Magic Academy and Boundless, a collection of short comics for adults.

Ardo Omer has written for online platforms as a reviewer and critic for almost a decade. She’s been a judge for a few kids comics awards and is an advisor at the Canadian Comics Open Library. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she serves as the Kids Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD).