Acknowledgements
Gratitude to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada for the SSHRC Insight Grant underpinning some of the original research that supported this study. Thanks also to the range of authors, illustrators, publishers, and others associated with the Canadian picture book industry for their input and responses to this project.
Special appreciation to research assistant Connor Guillet, whose careful insights and suggestions supported a draft of this manuscript, with keen regard to the titles by Indigenous authors and illustrators.
Special recognition also to research assistant Irteqa Khan, who spent many hours diligently collecting information about the media used in various picture book illustrations.
Also a big thank you to previous research collaborators who helped set the stage for this work: Jean Emmerson, Jing Jin, Irteqa Khan, Miranda Morstad, Shuwen Sun, Bailey Weber, and Yina Liu. And to Peter Carver – tremendous appreciation for all the insights and suggestions as first reader!
We are also grateful to the University of Saskatchewan, College of Education, for providing a home base for this work, and to the team at Brill – you have been wonderful to work with – many thanks!