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★ Prairie Willow

By Maxine Trottier, Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson, illus.

This achingly beautiful story of a young girl and her pioneer family evokes the vastness of the land, the whisper of the wind, and the promise and hope of the people who settled the endless ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Gilbert De La Frogponde

By Jennifer Rae, Rose Cowles, illus.

The idea of eating strange and repulsive food often strikes children as very funny, and is the basis of humour in this rollicking picture book. It’s the first children’s book for both author Jennifer Rae, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Angel Tree

By Robin Muller

Kit is an orphan, apprenticed to the cruel and greedy blacksmith Grimshaw. Kit savours the little beauty to be found in his grim, smoky world – the song of a sparrow, a dying tree outside ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lavender Moon

By Troon Harrison, Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

Lavender Moon is the name of the woman who has served up cherry pie and coffee in a small café to the passengers of the late-night bus for 20 years. As time passes, Lavender Moon ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The House of Wooden Santas

By Kevin Major,Imelda George, carver

Where is Kevin Major going? Twenty years ago, the young Newfoundland author burst onto the literary scene with a proud, angry young-adult novel called Hold Fast that won a Canada Council Award for Children’s Literature ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Counting Feathers

By Al Simmons, Brian Floca, illus.

Anyone who’s read the liner notes from a favourite record or CD knows how flat and even clumsy song lyrics can sound alone on paper. Yet children’s songs are often produced in picturebook form. When ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Proud

By Fred Penner, Vickey Bolling, illus.

Anyone who’s read the liner notes from a favourite record or CD knows how flat and even clumsy song lyrics can sound alone on paper. Yet children’s songs are often produced in picturebook form. When ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Snow Story

By Nancy Hundal, Kasia Charko, illus.

This book has “beautiful” written all over it, full of deep snowdrifts and cozy three-storey Victorian houses with your own beautiful room at the top. Written in the lyrical style of Hundal’s award-winning I Heard ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Final Game

By William Roy Brownridge

The story of the Moccasin Goalie continues: Danny, Petou, and Anita have been asked to play for the Wolves, and the team has made it to the finals. That alone should prove the three are ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Computer Crisis 2000

By W. Michael Fletcher

Doomsday is coming! Doomsday is coming!Sort of.Welcome to the Year 2000 Problem, also known in computer circles as Y2K, also known as the Millennium Bug, also known as the biggest single pain-in-the-butt that computer professionals ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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