Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry

It’s bad enough that hockey monopolizes both television and the national consciousness for the bulk of each year — now it’s invading the poetry shelves as well? What is the world coming to? I would ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

★ Roundup at the Palace

By Kathleen Cook Waldron; Alan & Lea Daniel, illus.

One week before Freedom to Read Week in 1992, the International Woodworkers of America union in B.C. demanded that the Sunshine Coast School District remove all copies of a picture book called Maxine’s Tree from ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Who’s in Maxine’s Tree?

By Diane Carmel Leger; Darlene Gait, illus.

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Wake Up, Henry Rooster!

By Margriet Ruurs; Sean Cassidy, illus.

There is a struggle – in kids’ books, as in life – between learning to appreciate yourself as you are and admitting you need to improve. Are you an ugly duckling, soon to become a ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Queen’s Feet

By Sarah Ellis; Dusan Petricic, illus.

Ellis plies her supple storytelling skills and whimsical imagination to delectable effect in this sly, subversive fairy tale. Her drolly entertaining story explores a phenomenon familiar to parents and caregivers: how children excuse their mischief ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Raising a Little Stink

By Colleen Sydor; Pascale Constantin, illus.

What can you do if your friends and family all take advantage of your good nature? When a lazy lion, a lion tamer, and a mouse all run away from the circus because they’re tired ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

When You Were Small

By Sara O'Leary; Julie Morstad, illus.

Most children are enchanted by tales of their own antics when they were younger, and Henry’s no different. In a nightly ritual he asks his father to tell him about when he was small. And ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Who Likes the Wind?

By Etta Kaner; Marie Lafrance, illus.

Kids Can Press has released an unusual new picture book, Who Likes the Wind?, by Toronto teacher and award-winning science writer Etta Kaner. This story can be read two ways: as a simple expression of ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Grandpa’s Clock

By Rachna Gilmore; Amy Meissner, illus.

The ticking of a clock, the ticking of a heart. Rachna Gilmore’s new story is a richly textured tale of family relationships, particularly between Cayley and her grandpa, who builds clocks. When he’s hospitalized after ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ With Every Mistake

By Gwynne Dyer

A collection of newspaper columns is supposed to act as a gap-filler for a publisher and a quick ego-stroke for its author. A column, after all, is the reactionary, unreflective bastard child of the essay, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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