February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Grant Innes’s illustrations for his first book, Flight of the Whirligigs, are bright, primitive, and childlike – he is like a folk-art Lucy Cousins. In the accompanying story, Grant, a painter, takes his dog to ... Read More »
Marie finds it difficult to accept the fact that her grandfather, Poppa, is too old to winter in his cabin as he always has, and must now go south for his health. To comfort her, ... Read More »
February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In this gentle picture book, an account of the traditional Nova Scotian craft of rug hooking is woven – or should I say hooked – into the slight but touching story of a little girl ... Read More »
February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
When Saruni’s mother gives him five 10-cent coins for helping her at the market, the boy’s imagination runs wild with all that he might buy. A shiny red and blue bicycle catches his eye, and ... Read More »
February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Kites soar and dip in this lovely picture book by Orillia, Ontario author Ting-xing Ye and Montreal artist Suzane Langlois. Lilting text and luminous watercolours tell the story of Fei-fei, a young girl who lives ... Read More »
February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Waking to a heavy snowfall, with its pale, washed light and strange silence, touches even the most jaded Canadian adult. Everything ordinary is muffed and scarfed in plump white billows. If you happen to be ... Read More »
February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
In celebration of the International Year of the Older Person (1999), award-winning Saskatchewan poet and novelist Shelley Leedahl has written a touching story of an old woman, once active and adventurous, “whose life had wound ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
This collection of poems deliberately sets out to challenge negative associations of the image of the dark. As the author states in her afterword, the association of darkness with evil and ignorance has often led ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books