The Way to Slumbertown

By Lucy Maud Montgomery; Rachel Bedard, illus.

L.M. Montgomery’s famous name will attract readers to this lullaby picture book, which is based on a poem first published in a magazine in 1916. Replete with lyrical visions and dreamy sentiment, the poem is ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Nutcracker

By Karen Kain; Rajka Kupesic, illus.

Prima ballerina Karen Kain becomes a storyteller with this new picture book version of The Nutcracker, based on James Kudelka’s National Ballet production of Tchaikovsky’s well-loved piece. This version is set in Russia rather than ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Love of Two Stars: A Korean Legend

By Janie Jaehyun Park

Janie Jaehyun Park’s first book, The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon, won the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award and was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award in 2002. Her second, The Love of Two Stars, ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Me and My Sister

By Ruth Ohi

Now writing as well as illustrating, the prolific and award-winning Ruth Ohi presents a new picture book exploring the relationship between two young sisters. Inspired by Ohi’s own daughters, the two girls (who appear to ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Sandcastle Contest

By Robert Munsch; Michael Martchenko, illus.

A new story by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko – knowing that, what more do you need? However: in The Sandcastle Contest, a happy-looking family stacks their trailer high with boats and barbecues and ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Refrigerator Memory

By Shannon Bramer

Toronto-based Shannon Bramer’s third book is a challenge to the easy assumptions we often make about what topics are appropriate subject matter for poetry. Many of Bramer’s poems have a mixture of political and personal ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity

By Cecil Foster

Exploring the dynamics of racism in Canada is a tricky proposition, for discrimination in this self-professed tolerant society is often expressed in a more subtle, multilayered manner than in America. Author and professor Cecil Foster ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Great Dominion: Winston Churchill in Canada 1900-1954

By David Dilks

For the Churchillophile who has everything comes British historian David Dilks’s The Great Dominion. Between 1900 and 1954 the great imperialist and war leader visited Canada nine times (eight, if one excludes a visit to ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven

By Linda Johns

Artist and author Linda Johns – known as the “Bird Lady of Nova Scotia” – checks in with her sixth ornithological opus, Birds of a Feather. The book is filled with dozens of poignant stories ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Bitter Embrace: White Society’s Assault on the Woodland Cree

By Maggie Siggins

In her new book, Maggie Siggins, author of the Governor General’s Award-winning Revenge of the Land, sets out to reveal the human face behind native issues by writing a history of the Pelican Narrows Cree ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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