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A Door Is to Open

Brief Description
Welcome through the doorway of this picture book... about doors! From a Caldecott Honor author and a New York Times Best Illustrated artist comes a celebration of entrances and exits, thresholds and portals—all the endless possibilities they can lead to and all those who have opened... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Welcome through the doorway of this picture book... about doors! From a Caldecott Honor author and a New York Times Best Illustrated artist comes a celebration of entrances and exits, thresholds and portals—all the endless possibilities they can lead to and all those who have opened them!

Some doors may give you a nervous, fizzy feeling... and also make you glad you came.

There are so many kinds of doors—swinging doors and sliding doors, screen doors for feeling the night air, revolving doors for going around and around. Doors that open into... anything you can imagine! A birthday party, a shipwreck on the salty sea floor, a fairy's tiny home, a slide into a room full of pillows! Or even the fantastical future ahead. Where will the doorway of this picture book lead? The only way to find out is to turn the page and go through...

In a playful ode to Ruth Krauss's A Hole Is to Dig and Remy Charlip's essay A Page Is a Door, this imagination-sparking picture book from an award-winning duo will be welcomed by anyone who is entering a new phase of life—and invites readers of all ages to embrace the marvellous possibilities that wait for them behind every new door.

Includes a beautiful foldout page and textured spine.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781774887448

Publisher: Tundra Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 April 2026

Country: Canada

Imprint: Tundra Books

Illustration: 48 Illustrations

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 211.0mm

Height: 274.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 48

About the Author

Kyo Maclear (Author) KYO MACLEAR is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and children's author. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages and published in over twenty-five countries. She is the author of the hybrid memoir Birds Art Life (2017), winner of the Trillium Book Award. Kyo holds a doctorate in environmental humanities and is on faculty at the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA. Julie Morstad (Illustrator) JULIE MORSTAD is the author and illustrator of Today, How To and Time Is a Flower, which was a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book, winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, and a finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award, among other honors. She has illustrated many other beloved stories for children, including Kate DiCamillo's The Puppets of Spelhorst. In 2018, she illustrated a stamp for Canada Post. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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