THEY'RE HEROES, TOO

A picture-book celebration of the ordinary people - grownups and kids - who hold our world together by going about their daily lives and work.

We celebrate cops, firefighters, and soldiers, and rightly so. But we must also celebrate teachers, bus drivers, grocery clerks, mail carriers, and the other folks who keep the world spinning around every day. And let's give a nod to kids, tookids who are kind and brave and help each other. They're heroes too. Pat Brisson is the author of 20 books for young readers, including The Summer My Father Was Ten, Before We Eat, Tummy Time Friends, and Common Critters. Anait Semirdzhyan grew up in a multicultural family and lived in several countries with diverse cultures. Her illustrations begin as pencil sketches on cold-press watercolor paper. She then inks the outlines, paints with watercolors, and scans the illustrations in order to edit them in Photoshop. She is the illustrator of Tilbury's Before We Eat, The Arabic Quilt, and The Cottonwoo Tree - and other works that can be viewed at www.anaitsart.com