Books By Jordan Scott, Jamal Saeed - Author

Jordan Scott is a poet and children's author. His debut children's book, I Talk Like a River, was a Schneider Family Book Award recipient, a New York Times Best Children's Book, and has been translated into nineteen languages. His other picture books include My Baba's Garden, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, and Angela's Glacier, which received four starred reviews. He lives on Vancouver Island and teaches at the UBC School of Creative Writing. Jamal Saeed is an activist, editor, visual artist, and author who spent years as a prisoner of conscience in Syria before fleeing to Canada with his family as refugees in 2016. He continues to raise awareness about Syria's ongoing civil war and humanitarian crisis through his work. This is his first picture book. Jamal lives in Kingston, Ontario.