Calling The Invisible Day 'a fun book,' Mary Thomas added in Canadian Review of Materials that the novel boasts 'a strong female protagonist and an interesting, without being harrowing, storyline.' A Publishers Weekly critic also praised the book, predicting that Jocelyn's 'whimsical, high-spirited novel' will be 'a sure-fire crowd-pleaser.' When Billie discovers a jar of powder that turns her invisible, she finally gets to experience life out from under her mother's eyes. Jocelyn's first book, The Invisible Day, centers on ten-year-old Billie, who is frustrated by the lack of privacy while sharing a tiny studio apartment with her mother, a librarian at Billie's school. While raising her two daughters, and reading children's books to them, Jocelyn was inspired to try her hand at adding 'children's book author and illustrator' to her resume. She has gone on to live in many different places and sampled many different jobs, even selling cookies, before settling down in New York City and opening her own company designing children's toys and clothing. 'That gave me a taste of something so different that I wanted to keep exploring the world,' she recalled on the Red Cedar Awards Web site. Raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and spending summers in nearby Stratford, where her family has lived for generations, Jocelyn left Canada in tenth grade to attend boarding school in Great Britain.

Marthe Jocelyn came to writing relatively late in life, after working at a variety of other occupations. Secrets (short stories), Tundra Books (Plattsburgh, NY), 2005.Ĭontributor of short stories to anthologies, including On Her Way: Stories and Poems about Growing up Girl. Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance (young-adult fiction), Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2004.Ī Home for Foundlings (nonfiction), Tundra Books (Plattsburgh, NY), 2005. OTHERĮarthly Astonishments (young-adult fiction), Dutton (New York, NY), 2000. Over Under, Tundra Books (Plattsburgh, NY), 2005.ĪBC x 3: English, Español, Français, Tundra Books (Plattsburgh, NY), 2005. One Some Many, Tundra Books (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2004. PICTURE BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY HUSBAND, TOM SLAUGHTER Mayfly, Tundra Books (Plattsburgh, NY), 2004.

Hannah's Collections, Dutton (New York, NY), 2000.Ī Day with Nellie, Tundra Books (Plattsburgh, NY), 2002. Hannah and the Seven Dresses, Dutton (New York, NY), 1999. Marthe Jocelyn SELF-ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOKS The Invisible Enemy, illustrated by Abby Carter, Dutton (New York, NY), 2002. The Invisible Harry, illustrated by Abby Carter, Dutton (New York, NY), 1998. The Invisible Day, illustrated by Abby Carter, Dutton (New York, NY), 1997.

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