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★ Green Cat

By Dayal Kaur Khalsa

Ready to engage in their nightly squabble over space in the bedroom they share, Tom and Lynn are distracted by a tall green cat who asks them, “What do you like the most?” They both ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Badger’s New House

By Robin Muller

“Badger lived in a cozy little house,” writes Robin Muller charmingly. When a terrible storm necessitates repairs to his humble abode, Badger doesn’t feel inclined to undertake them so he moves. He finds himself rattling ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Art Room

By Susan Vande Griek, Pascal Milelli, illus.

In response to an ad in the paper in the early 1900s, three children are sent to take drawing and painting classes with a “Miss M. Emily Carr.” What they find when they reach the ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

How Sleep Found Tabitha

By Maggie deVries, Sheena Lott, illus.

Cozy in bed, Tabitha imagines her toys inviting her to sleep in their habitats: the whale in the sea, the eagle in her nest, the rabbit in his burrow. Tabitha tries sleeping coiled on the ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cappuccina Goes to Town

By Mary Ann Smith and Katie Smith Milway, Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

Cappuccina is a cow with a wandering eye. Watching people drive by her field on their way to town, she longs to sample freedom and seizes the chance when a storm knocks a hole in ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Edward the “crazy Man”

Marie Day’s latest picture book is a comic, fable-like story about creativity, mental illness, and the healing powers of friendship. One morning Charlie, a young boy, sees a homeless man named Edward dressed in a ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Abc of Canada

By Kim Bellefontaine

Kim Bellefontaine’s ABC is a better tool for teaching toddlers about Canada than for teaching the alphabet. Young readers catch glimpses of some of our cities and tourist spots. They are introduced to ice fishing, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Bear on the Bed

By Ruth Miller, Bill Slavin, illus.

With primary school audiences, there are few crowd-pleasers as reliable as toilet humour. Whether it’s jokes about farts or superheroes in underpants, anything along this subversive line hits the mark. In Ruth Miller’s new book, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Unless

By Carol Shields

Despite its provisional title, its hesitant, breath-in-the-throat half-title, Carol Shields’ Unless knows its own mind and isn’t afraid to speak it.In this, her 10th novel, Shields constructs a tangle of questions. What is goodness? What ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

I’m a Hop Hop Hoppity Frog

By Lawrence Northey, Julie Northey, illus.

I love to hop,/It’s hard to stop!/I’m a hop hop hoppity frog.”So goes the opening stanza of a rhyming picture book about a little frog who can’t sit still and hops all day long, leaving ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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