Aaron Paquette is the author/illustrator of Lightfinder (Kegedonce Press, 2014). Lightfinder's interior contains 10 black and white images of Aaron's depictions, and the cover boasts a captivating image of Aisling; a featured protagonist in the YA fantasy.

At the age of three, Aaron Paquette was terrified and enchanted by his Mother’s impersonation of Gollum while reading The Hobbit. It was then that he knew he wanted to tell stories. As an artist, his work has gone around the world. As a speaker he is in great demand for his powerful messages. As a writer, Lightfinder is his first novel, and it won the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature. 
Aaron lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife and children.

Visit Aaron Paquette's website

Visit Aaron's author page here: http://kegedonce.com/aaron-paquette.html
 

At the age of three, Aaron Paquette was terrified and enchanted by his Mother’s impersonation of Gollum while reading The Hobbit. It was then that he knew he wanted to tell stories. As an artist, his work has gone around the world. As a speaker he is in great demand for his powerful messages. As a writer, Lightfinder is his first novel, and it won the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature. 
Aaron lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife and children.

Visit Aaron Paquette's website

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Lightfinder

Written & illustrated by Aaron Paquette Lightfinder is a Young Adult fantasy novel about Aisling , a young Cree woman who sets out into the wilderness with her Kokum (grandmother), Aunty and two young men she barely knows.