Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s 2008 Best Picture Books
2007 “The Sakura Tree”, Carolyn McTighe. Illustrated by Karen Brownlee. Release date: June, 2007 . ISBN 0-88995-354-6 cloth. Juvenile/ Fiction/ Historical / Canada/ Post-Confederation/ Juvenile Fiction/People & Places/Asia. The Sakura Tree is on the cover and page 2 of the Red Deer Press Fall 2006 catalogue. “Karen Brownlee is an Alberta artist who specialized in exploring vanishing cultures, and her delicate watercolours are a perfect counterpoint to the poetic text of McTighe, a radio and print journalist living in Westbank, British Columbia.” Red Deer Press Fall 2006 Catalogue.”