Kids’ Books

Llamas in the Laundry

As a companion volume to Vanilla Go rilla (1998), Llamas in the Laundry features children’s poetry with plentiful illustrations. The book’s strengths lie in a few nonsensical skipping rhymes with strong rhythms and vivid images ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

By Kate Taylor

There’s been plenty of anticipation for Kate Taylor’s Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, though not necessarily the kind a first-time novelist wants. Taylor is The Globe and Mail’s well-known theatre critic, respected by readers, ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Anna’s Goat

By Janice Kulyk Keefer, Janet Wilson , illus.

We live in a time when to be a migrant or refugee is one of the commonest human conditions,” writes Janice Kulyk Keefer, who has memorably addressed the refugee experience in her award-winning fiction and ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lu & Clancy’s Spy Stuff

By Adrienne Mason, Pat Cupples, illus.

Lu and Clancy, the canine sleuths who introduced kids to secret codes and crime science in two earlier books, have returned with a new story and a set of activities for the junior espionage set.Lu ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Sleepy Little Mouse

By Eugenie Fernandes, Kim Fernandes, illus.

A very tired little mouse who doesn’t want to nap, no matter how much her mother tries to lull her, kicks and cries until she floods her bedroom with tears and her bed floats out ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Three Prince Charming Tales: Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel

By Marilyn Helmer, Kasia Charko, illus.

Some critics think we’ve had enough of these passive girls modelling beauty and marriage to our daughters. But there is a mysterious power in these tales of girls with memorable names who marry anonymous fellows. ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Stella, Queen of the Snow

By Marie-Louise Gay

Prolific, award-winning Montreal author/illustrator Marie-Louise Gay has delightful access to the world seen through a child’s eyes. Stella, Queen of the Snow is a wonderful picture book – child-oriented, fancifully illustrated, joyful, funny, and sweet. ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Beothuk Saga

By Bernard Assiniwi ,Wayne Grady, trans.

In The Beothuk Saga, Cree author Bernard Assiniwi combines history, ethnology, and a multi-generational epic storyline to tell the story of Newfoundland’s now-extinct Beothuk people. In the Cree tradition, stories are not classified as “true” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Trade

By Fred Stenson

You’d never want to put the adjective “fair” in front of the kind of trade that Fred Stenson writes about in this absorbing historical novel. He’s concerned with the fur trade, in what is now ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

My Cross-country Checkup: Across Canada by Minivan, Through Space and Time

By Walter Stewart

Walter Stewart first travelled across the Trans-Canada Highway in 1964, for a series of stories in the Star Weekly. In My Cross-Country Checkup, Stewart and his wife, Joan – dryly referred to as “The Driver” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

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