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Storm at Batoche

By Maxine Trottier, John Mantha, illus.

Who was Louis Riel?” asked my daughter’s American boyfriend. “A famous Canadian explorer!” she replied cheerfully. I groaned. How could she not have known Riel was a Metis resistance leader hanged for treason after the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Next Stop

By Sarah Ellis, Ruth Ohi, illus.

Working with about 300 words, award-winning novelist Sarah Ellis has written Next Stop, her first picture book. Its text is the height of simplicity, in both structure and vocabulary, and opens with: “On Saturday, Claire ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Bubblegum Delicious

By Dennis Lee, David McPhail, illus.

Working with about 300 words, award-winning novelist Sarah Ellis has written Next Stop, her first picture book. Its text is the height of simplicity, in both structure and vocabulary, and opens with: “On Saturday, Claire ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Rooster Prince

By Sydell Waxman, Giora Carmi, illus.

No one can stop the Crown Prince of Russia from acting like a rooster. The Tsar’s messenger spies a child named Avron carrying home a chicken for Shabbat dinner, and whisks him off to the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pussycats Everywhere!

By Sheila McGraw

Sheila McGraw, author of Papier Maché for Kids and illustrator of the best-selling Love You Forever, makes full use of her established artistic talents in her new foray into writing fiction. This vibrantly illustrated picture ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Wolf of Gubbio

By Michael Bedard, Murray Kimber, illus.

Gubbio is a small medieval village whose occupants live in terror of a monstrous grey wolf. When the story begins, however, a “wonder” has occurred that changes the town and the townspeople forever. The young ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Trial of the Stone

By Richardo Keens-Douglas, Stéphane Jorische, illus.

Richardo Keens-Douglas, a talented storyteller, writer, and actor, has based his sixth picture book on a comic fable akin in its sly anarchic spirit and dignified silliness to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Emperor’s ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Personal Calligraphy

Artists are not always content to let their art speak for them. Some, like Newfoundland painter Mary Pratt, choose to stack prose up against their paintings, providing another piece to the puzzle that is their ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Canada: A People’s History (Volume One)

By Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon

The English writer Saki quipped that the people of Crete have always made more history than they can consume locally. In Canada, there are those who’ll argue that we go the other way, and that ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

A Fit Month for Dying

By M.T. Dohaney

From page one, A Fit Month for Dying, the final novel in a trilogy chronicling the trials of the Corrigan family, promises heartbreak. “Sooner or later life’ll break the heart of ye,” warns Bertha Corrigan, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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