February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Who among us, child and adult alike, hasn’t at one time or another dreamed up the ideal companion? With tender humour, Toronto writer and illustrator Andrea Wayne von Königslöw beguilingly captures that most universal of ... Read More »
There’s going to be a party for Bun Bun’s first birthday. Mommy, Daddy, and Eugene are busy putting up decorations and Bun Bun herself is watching the hoopla with fascination. But older sister Winifred? She’s ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Nancy Hundal and Brian Deines, the team behind Prairie Summer, tell the story of a hot afternoon in which a family enjoys the newest addition to the father’s truck fleet in an unusual way. While ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In “Unless the Eye Catch Fire,” the last and best story of P.K. Page’s A Kind of Fiction, an avid gardener and sometime journal writer is possessed by a strangely calm end-of-world vision that enables ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
How tidy is history? It’s a question that every writer of historical fiction must contemplate, especially those who write for the young, for whom the impulse to narrative neatness is strong. The olden-days books that ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
How tidy is history? It’s a question that every writer of historical fiction must contemplate, especially those who write for the young, for whom the impulse to narrative neatness is strong. The olden-days books that ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
The Night Fire, by Ontario writer Lori Lukasewich, is a rhyming tale of a busy night at the local fire hall. With its behind-the-scenes look at what firefighters do before, during, and after going on ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Unlike many of his folktale counterparts, the fox that narrates Maxine Trottier’s latest picture book is no sly-talking prevaricator. Rather, this fox is a sincere creature intent on delivering a small morsel of Canadian history ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Since winning the Governor-General’s Award for her illustration of Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming in 1993, Mireille Levert has been writing and illustrating her own picture books, which include several fairy tale adaptations and the Molly ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
When the editors of the I Was There series asked Barbara Hehner to author First on the Moon, they certainly chose the right person. Hehner’s writing makes us feel as if we really were there ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction