February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The fall season heralds two new books from Robert Munsch, that fixture of Canadian children’s literature. Get Out of Bed!, Munsch’s latest, published by Scholastic, takes the idea of sleeping in to a whole new ... Read More »
These two new picture books deal with reading in radically different ways. In The Girl Who Hated Books, Meena lives in a house crammed with books of all kinds. Her parents are obsessive readers, and ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
These two new picture books deal with reading in radically different ways. In The Girl Who Hated Books, Meena lives in a house crammed with books of all kinds. Her parents are obsessive readers, and ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
A young girl sits by the fire. This is her first night in the mountain cabin, and although her parents and her brother are asleep, she is excited and wakeful. As the fire burns to ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In a world of perpetual change the traditional concept of marriage – constancy, fidelity, familiarity – is an institution completely at odds with the times we live in.While we still crave the intimacy of stable ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
The only notion I ever had of running away from home was when (somewhere around the age of seven) I soberly considered fleeing home for the bakery at the end of my street. It’s an ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
The only notion I ever had of running away from home was when (somewhere around the age of seven) I soberly considered fleeing home for the bakery at the end of my street. It’s an ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
Cary Fagan has taken Nikolai Gogol’s famous Russian (long) short story “The Overcoat,” historically revised it by adding a happy ending, and turned it into a nice little picture storybook for children. The original, obviously ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
On a cold, wet night Luke and his family say goodbye to friends and begin their long journey home in the car. Sandwiched between his dozing older brother and sister in the back seat, Luke ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
It has been a year since Selina and her family moved from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada to escape the effects of the American Civil War. Selina is an inch taller and her family has settled ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books