Beyond the Northern Lights

Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, 2007 Silver Medallist - Picture Book Category

Quill and Quire's Best Picture Books of the Year selection, 2007

Raven, will you carry me into the northern skies?

A stunning book by an acclaimed artist

Batik artist Lynn Blaikie calls on Raven to take the reader on a magical tour of the North. Here readers will dance beyond the northern lights and plunge into the icy deep, where whales mingle with dolphins. And they will find the warmth of the fire pit, where hand in hand the spirits dance.

Her simple poetic text is enhanced with stunning images created in batik, filled with rich colors and powerful designs that evoke the spiritual landscape and peoples of the remote north. A beautiful introduction to the North for children and a book for art lovers to treasure.

Lynn Blaikie was born in Southern Ontario and moved to the Yukon Territory at the age of eighteen. During the long and dark winter days in the small mining community of Elsa, she discovered the art of batik. She fell in love with the medium and practiced in isolation, far from other artistic influences. Now Lynn looks on her isolation as an asset; her many years of private development have resulted in a unique personal style.