Pat Lamondin Skene retired from the world of banking to find her voice. She is a Métis author of several books for children, including the picture book Lights along the River and the Orca Echoes titles One Beaded Earring, What a Hippopota-Mess!, Rhyme Stones and Monster Lunch. Most of Pat's inspiration come from her many travels, and memories of her childhood growing up in a Métis community on the Magnetawan River.
Pat keeps her imagination fed and watered in Oakville, Ontario. A graduate of the illustration program at Sheridan College in Ontario, Graham Ross began his freelance illustration and graphic design career in Ottawa. A career that has spawned illustrations for such publishers as Orca Book Publishers, Scholastic Canada, and Meadowside Books of the United Kingdom, as well as numerous Canadian government agencies and private design firms.
He lives in Merrickville, Ontario with a circus star family: his juggling wife, a helldriver daughter, a canine cannonball, and a fire breathing cat.
Pat keeps her imagination fed and watered in Oakville, Ontario. A graduate of the illustration program at Sheridan College in Ontario, Graham Ross began his freelance illustration and graphic design career in Ottawa. A career that has spawned illustrations for such publishers as Orca Book Publishers, Scholastic Canada, and Meadowside Books of the United Kingdom, as well as numerous Canadian government agencies and private design firms.
He lives in Merrickville, Ontario with a circus star family: his juggling wife, a helldriver daughter, a canine cannonball, and a fire breathing cat.
