Kids’ Books

★ The Master’s Apprentice

By Rick Jacobson; Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson, illus.

When Marco is accepted as a junior apprentice to young Michelangelo Buonarroti, he is excited and fearful. His father, a chemist, has trained him to mix his secret formulas for artists’ colours, but Marco knows ... Read More »

March 12, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming

By Jean Davies Okimoto; Jeremiah Trammell, illus.

Winston of Churchill is a brilliant book. Great fun to read and look at, it painlessly teaches children a number of important facts. With captivating wit, author Jean Davies Okimoto explores global warming, Manitoba geography, ... Read More »

March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Third Eye

By Mahtab Narsimhan

Mahtab Narsimhan brings imagery from her native India to the story of Tara, an Indian girl who battles an evil monster/magician in order to retrieve her family and save her village. Tara’s mother and beloved ... Read More »

March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Rosie and Buttercup

By Chieri Uegaki; Stephane Jorisch, illus.

At first, Rosie is very taken with her new little sister, Buttercup. But before long, she begins to resent Buttercup’s messy intrusion into her life and tries to give her away. So begins this unexceptional ... Read More »

March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Mattland

By Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert; Dusan Petricic, illus.

What can a kid do when he’s moved over and over again, and the place he’s moved to now is the very worst of all? Matt is so angry he could throw a stick, but ... Read More »

March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Footwork: The Story of Fred and Adele Astaire

By Roxane Orgill; Stéphane Jorisch, illus.

Before Fred and Ginger, there was Fred and his sister Adele. From the respective ages of five and seven, the young Astaires danced together for more than 20 years. Orgill and Jorisch tell the true ... Read More »

January 16, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Down at the Sea Hotel

By Greg Brown; Mireille Levert, illus.

A dot-eyed pig in red tartan Bermuda shorts and suspenders is our guide through the surreal world of Down at the Sea Hotel, a song by Greg Brown that has morphed into a picture book ... Read More »

January 16, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Ben’s Bunny Trouble

By Daniel Wakeman; Dirk van Stralen, illus.

Children do not consider themselves cute. Of course, adults occasionally find them so, and only the most austere grown-up is immune from the awww moment. But that moment is no time to start writing a ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Happiness and Other Disorders

By Ahmad Saidullah

“Page after page of my sketchbook has drawings of glow-worms, butterflies, and geckoes and their tails that keep twitching even after they have dropped off.” So says Raheela, the narrator of “Fifteen Sketches of Rumi,” ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Commons

By Matthew Hughes

The Commons, the new novel from B.C.’s Matthew Hughes, is introduced by editor Robert J. Sawyer as a “fixup”: a novel knitted together out of a series of previously published short stories. In this case, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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