April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
This very attractively presented counting book is actually two books in one. The counting book itself, with full-colour illustrations by Vladyana Krykorka, shows the Arctic animals in a hunter-prey relationship – one polar bear hunts ... Read More »
Teelo, the feline hero of this adventure story, is a reluctant traveller. When he loses his first home, he is adopted by Victor, a kindly vet who lives by himself on the seemingly idyllic Cloud ... Read More »
April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
A poor bamboo-cutter finds a luminous baby girl in the trunk of a tree one day, and he and his wife raise her as their own. But when she becomes a beautiful young woman, she ... Read More »
April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Father mole decides his daughter is too perfect to marry a mere mole. Against her wishes, he approaches the sky. The sky professes to be honoured, but claims the sun is more powerful, as it ... Read More »
April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
“Nighty night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” This familiar childhood refrain is the premise behind Bill Richardson’s lively picture book. The idea for the book began when callers to his CBC radio show ... Read More »
April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Hazel Hutchins’ and Ruth Ohi’s new picture book – the 16th they’ve done together – is a lively fantasy about a girl named Josie who disappears into the world of her sidewalk chalk drawings. We ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Miss Rafferty’s rainbow socks move her to lively tunes and joyful dance. Being magic socks, they also grow along with her, even into her old age. And so it is that Miss Rafferty is a ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
These books are designed to present information about resource-based industries to kids in Grades 2 to 4. In both, the mainly expository writing is framed by a narrative. In Forestry, a boy named Cameron is ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
These books are designed to present information about resource-based industries to kids in Grades 2 to 4. In both, the mainly expository writing is framed by a narrative. In Forestry, a boy named Cameron is ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Mary Alice Downie and Kathryn Naylor know cats. They passed the feline literary initiation in The Cat Park and have come together again for a winter cat fantasy. Sam, youngest of his family, has no ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books