CARE FOR A CUP OF SEAWEED TEA? TRY ROBERT PERRY's DOWN at the Seaweed Café (Raincoast $21.95). With illustrations by the Sunshine Coast's Greta Guzek, Perry's poem takes you from early morning where "the boats go by and flocks of birds circle the sky"; to tranquil night when "the sky is now a starlit dome; the boats are all parading home."; My Vancouver Sketchbook (Raincoast $18.95), employs similar rhyming text and cheerful illustrations. Perry and Guzek present young Marina as she fills her sketchbook with happy memories of a day in Vancouver, from Spanish Banks to Nitobe Gardens, Robson Street to Grouse Mountain. Seaweed Cafe1-55192-473-0; Sketchbook 1-55192-436-6 (2003)

[Spring 2003 BCBW]