OOKO 

Ooko has everything a fox could want: a stick, a leaf and a rock. Well, almosteverything . . . Ooko wants someone to play with too! The foxes in town always seem to be playing with their two-legged friends, the Debbies. Maybe if he tries to look like the other foxes, one of the Debbies will play with him too. But when Ooko finally finds his very own Debbie, things don’t turn out quite as he had expected! 

OOKO was published by Tundra Books of Penguin Random House in July 2016. 

You can buy it at your local bookstore or on Amazon here.

Praise for OOKO

“Playful, joyous and hip.” - Kirkus Reviews

“Shapiro is onto something here: a hard to define “Ooko-ness,” that is lovely, invigorating and pure.” - Quill and Quire

“There are some books that are almost not even worth reviewing, simply because their merits are too obvious that they’re primed to become a hit without any outside help …. this is one of those books …. Shapiro’s sugar-spun world that exists on these pages is an idyllic and compassionate place, where life lessons are learned at a softly rolling pace.” – Globe and Mail

PRESS FOR OOKO

CANADIAN MEDIA

-Nominated for a Governor General's Award
-#1 on the National Post Bestseller List
-Toronto Life
-Calgary Sun Cool Stuff
-Ontarionews.com
-Island Parent Magazine
-CityParent.com On the Bookshelf
-Chapters Indigo Online New and Hot
-49th Shelf Feature Week of July 25th
-Featured Review in the Quill and Quire
-Quill and Quire Review
-McNally Robinson The Bookseller Newsletter Feature
-Help! We've Got Kids
-CM Review
-Globe and Mail Review
Globe and Mail Video Interview

AMERICAN MEDIA
-Hornbook Review
--Huffington Post Picture Book Round-up First Half of 2016
-The Children's Book Council July Newsletter, Featured Artist
-Amazon.com July Editors Pick of the Month (Picture books ages 3-5)
-Kirkus Review
-Publisher's Weekly
-The Book Page: Meet the Illustrator Feature, July print issue
-Mr Schu Reads Book Trailer Reveal
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

BLOGS

The 49th Shelf
Let's Talk Picture Books
CanLit For Little Canadians
Fab Books
The Rhialist
Musings of Madjy
Reviews in Chalk
My Novelesque Life
Adult in the YA Section
Plot Bunny
Book Nerd Mommy
Design of the Picture Book
Hands Full Mama
Scopenotes Roundup
Lost in a Good Book
Flavia the Bibliophile
Nebula of Books
Reviews in Chalk
Hermit Librarian
Sharon the LibrarianJbrary Picture Book Reviews 2016
Let's Talk Picture BooksThe Literary Hedonist

RADIO

-All the Wonders Podcast