February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
When Grandma announces she is going to Greenland for a year-long visit, Joey’s family plans a surprise going-away party for her. Joey and his little brother, Alfie, make presents, and Joey helps Mom bake Grandma’s ... Read More »
Michael Kusugak successfully takes a new direction in his seventh picture book collaboration with illustrator Vladyana Langer Krykorka. In their first six books, this award-winning team focused on eastern Arctic stories. This one moves to ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Award-winning author Jean Little borrows her plot from I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. For the few who haven’t heard the original story sung, chanted, or read, it’s about an old lady ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
You really want to like Philippa, the heroine of Sarah Dearing’s new novel,Courage My Love. Feeling like “such a wife,” she slips away from her pastel condo and her yuppie weasel husband, and immerses herself ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
This new series for very young children seems deliberately designed to evoke the early classics of children’s literature with their charming animal characters. The mole sisters are a delightful pair whose optimism brightens up even ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
This new series for very young children seems deliberately designed to evoke the early classics of children’s literature with their charming animal characters. The mole sisters are a delightful pair whose optimism brightens up even ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The African Safari Papers, documentary filmmaker Robert Sedlack’s first novel, is the fictional record of 19-year-old Richard Clark’s journey through Kenya with his alcoholic father and psychologically precarious mother. Young Richard intends to write a ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
British Columbia author Andrea Spalding’s latest is a sensitive tale about gardens, growing sunflowers, the importance of memories, and the rewards of friendship.The narrator, Ian, is a prairie boy who, when his parents separate, moves ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
In Bear On the Train, a hungry bear follows the smell of grain right into a railway car. By the time the train pulls out, the bear is ready to hibernate and sleeps through the ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Inukshuks – those strange human-like figures of piled rocks that are such a distinctive emblem of the Canadian Arctic – provide a centre for Maxine Trottier’s haunting story of a young boy lost in the ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books