Kids’ Books

★ Danger in Dinosaur Valley, Screech Owls Series

The 10th title in Roy MacGregor’s Screech Owls series finds the adventurous team of young hockey stars in the Badlands of Alberta for a winter tournament. A warm chinook has made the weather in Drumheller ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Flags

By Maxine Trottier, Paul Morin, illus.

Set on the West Coast during the Second World War, this exquisitely sad and beautiful book tells of the friendship between Mary, a prairie girl visiting her grandmother for the summer, and Mr. Hiroshi, the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Mr. Reez’s Sneezes

By Curtis Parkinson, Sami Suomalainen, illus.

Mr. Reez lives a quiet life until the day he puts too much pepper on his salad. A breeze from the open window swirls the pepper up his nose and prompts him to erupt in ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Lucy’s Secret

By Mireille Levert; $ cloth , pp., , Groundwood Books, Apr. (ages 3-5) Reviewed from page

With its luxurious illustrations and subtle, Zen-like story, this book is a treasure. The tale takes place in a garden, where Lucy, the young narrator, is visiting her adult friend, Anna Zinnia. The plot is ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Mama God, Papa God: A Caribbean Tale

By Richardo Keens-Douglas, Stefan Czernecki, illus.

A celebration of the diversity of human life, Mama God, Papa God retells the creation myth in a way that’s both traditional and freshly contemporary. Although a long-time Toronto resident and former host of CBC ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Baby Dreams

By Eugenie Fernandes

Author-illustrator Eugenie Fernandes’ latest work explores babies’ dreams in a soothing way for parents and infants. In the same warm fuzzy bedtime genre as Teddy Jam’s This New Baby and Sam McBratney’s Guess How Much ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Trunks All Aboard: An Elephant Abc

By Barbara Nichol, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, illus.

All aboard for a delightful romp through the alphabet with Ahmed, on his way to Europe on the luxury liner the Empress of Britain, Bella, who has a most unnerving way of saying hello, pram-bound ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ We’ll All Go Sailing

By Maggee Spicer and Richard Thompson, Kim LaFave, illus.

We’ll all go sailing/On the great wide seas/My friend Maggee/And Jesse and me.” This bouncy opening line conveys the joyful tone of this picture book for preschoolers. Small hands can open the nine gatefolds that ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

By Robert Adams

Robert Adams’ A Love of Reading introduces 18 novels published, for the most part, over the last 10 years. Adams first delivered these reviews to packed theatres in Montreal and Toronto. Chapters on Maguib Mahfouz’s ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

Lives of Mothers and Daughters

By Sheila Munro

Sheila Munro, the eldest of three daughters, has struggled against low literary self-esteem, for it is not easy being the daughter of one of the world’s greatest living short story writers. Yet it was the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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