About the Book Looking for Snow Fleas is the ultimate poetry book for young people, parents, home schoolers and teachers. Fabulous poems about fabulous creatures are acompanied by hilarious snow flea circus illustrations. As a bonus, there are carefuly crafted questions and activities to connect the reader more deeply to the poems, themselves and their creative energies. "Nothing cooler than snow fleas!"

About the Author According to children´s literature expert, Bob Barton, Diane Dawber is one of Ontario´s best kept secrets. When he does a workshop with 100 poetry books available, a Dawber collection or two always end up in the top 4 choices because the teachers find the poems so approachable. Diane has been writing since childhood and was published, at 17, in Chatelaine magazine. Her first book for younger readers was published in 1987 when she was well into a 25-year stint as a teacher at all levels. Her career was slowed by severe illness in the early 1990s but her sense of fun and poetry have never left. Oatmeal Mittens, My Underwear´s Inside Out, How Do You Wrestle a Goldfish?, and My Cake´s On Fire! have all been anthologized in many texts and collection, the most recent being Scholatic´s new package, Moving Up with Literacy. Diane has done thousands of poetry and writing workshops, in schools and libraries, which reliably build a sense of community and a joy in poetry. Her Kingston open-mike project, Poetry & Company, has been injecting the same spirit in a ground-breaking suport group, Health Pursuits, for those with chronic illnesses, the first shown by a study to actually help people improve.