Rainbow Rocket

by Fiona Tinwei Lam, Kristi Bridgeman (Illustrations)

32 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 2013

About the author

Fiona Tinwei Lam is the author of Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award), Enter the Chrysanthemum, and the children’s book, The Rainbow Rocket. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in over twenty anthologies (Canada, Hong Kong, and the US), including In Fine Form: The Anthology of Canadian Form Poetry and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010. Her work has been featured twice on local transit as part of B.C.’s Poetry in Transit, as well as aired on CBC Radio. Thrice short-listed for Event magazine’s literary non-fiction contest, she is a co-editor of and contributor to the creative non-fiction anthology, Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She also edited The Bright Well, a collection of contemporary Canadian poetry about facing cancer. Her poetry videos have been screened at poetry film festivals locally and internationally.

Born in Scotland, she emigrated to Canada at a young age with her family. She has a B.A. in political science (UBC), an LL.B. (Queen’s University) and an LL.M. (University of Toronto). She articled and worked as an associate in a Vancouver law firm, and later as a staff lawyer at the Law Society of British Columbia. She also has an M.F.A. in creative writing (UBC). She facilitates writing workshops for people of diverse ages, backgrounds and circumstances, including at UBC Continuing Studies and Langara Continuing Studies.

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

<3 <3 <3

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I won this in a Goodreads First reads giveaway.

This book is great. The story is simple and easy for a child to understand. The illustrations & colours used are beautiful. The fact that the book is a supporter of the Alzheimer's Society is wonderful. 5 stars all around!

[Ontario Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book to introduce dementia and death to children.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Especially poignant as mother had just passed away, so I shared it with my niece and nephew. They also enjoyed it.