Kids’ Books

Looking for Loons

By Jennifer Lloyd; Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus.

In a cottage by a lake, golden sunlight wakes a young boy named Patrick. Carefully reaching for his binoculars, he creeps out of the bedroom, telling his sister Emily he’s off to look for loons. ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cinderella

By Michele Marineau; Mylene Pratt, illus.

Does the world need another Cinderella? The tale has been retold for millennia, from China to Hollywood, from the Brothers Grimm to Roald Dahl. Something in the old classic of oppressed heroine and oppressing stepfamily ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mr. Gaugin’s Heart

By Marie-Danielle Croteau; Isabelle Arsenault, illus.; Susan Ouriou, trans.

In the whimsical picture-book biography Mr. Gauguin’s Heart, Québécoise writer Marie-Danielle Croteau tells how the young Paul Gauguin discovers painting after his father dies. While the family is travelling to Peru, Mr. Gauguin dies suddenly, ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting

By Hugh Brewster; John Singer Sargent, illus.

Between 1885 and 1887, renowned expat American painter John Singer Sargent crafted his most famous work. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, a study of two girls in a garden lighting paper lanterns, is brought to life ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Way Cool License Plate Book

By Leonard Wise

Toronto writer and license plate buff Leonard Wise devotes himself to the weird and wonderful world of vanity license plates in this 64-page compendium of plate history, road-trip games, and notable examples of North American ... Read More »

June 26, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Toopy Goes Bananas

By Dominique Jolin and Carole Tremblay

Award-winning French Canadian author and illustrator Dominique Jolin has developed a successful empire based on the adventures of Toopy, a mouse with a wild imagination, and Binoo, his silent-but-game cat companion. The original stories translated ... Read More »

June 18, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Colours of My Home: A Portrait of Newfoundland & Labrador

By Susan Pynn; Nancy Keating, illus.

Two Newfoundland sisters, Susan Pynn and Nancy Keating, have put together a pleasant book celebrating their home province. The Colours of My Home takes the reader on a colour-coded tour of Newfoundland and Labrador, highlighting ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Trip with Grandma

By Ruth Ohi

Ruth Ohi’s latest picture book, her third to feature guinea pig characters, is a charming story about a young child’s first overnight trip without his parents. Though little Sprout likes seeing new places and loves ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Polar Bear, Arctic Hare: Poems of the Frozen North

By Eileen Spinelli; Eugenie Fernandes, illus.;

By the time you read this review, another couple of hundred kilometres of age-old ice will have broken off the Arctic shelf and tumbled into the sea. Hunters in Pangnirtung, in the area where Arctic ... Read More »

April 30, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush

By Barry M. Lando

In the final days of 1920, after a series of bloody Arab uprisings against the British occupiers of Mesopotamia (soon to be renamed Iraq), a frustrated Winston Churchill, then secretary of state for the colonies, ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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