Quill and Quire

Kids’ Books

By Werner Zimmermann

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

By Richard Brown, Carol Colman, Teodoro Bottiglieri

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