Picture Books

Pedrito’s Day

In Pedrito’s Day, Luis Garay returns to the subject of his 1993 collaboration with Monica Hughes, A Handful of Seeds. Both books examine a working child’s efforts to make a living in a poor Latin ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Great Blue Grump

By Jill Creighton, Kitty Macaulay, illus.

This charming book combines animal facts with humorous fantasy in just the right proportions for young children. One of the elements that makes this story so likely to please is its format: we circle in ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Kele’s Secret

By Tololwa M. Mollel, Catherine Stock, illus.

Among the many challenges of growing up comes the moment when a young child faces going alone into a scary place. Tololwa Mollel’s new picture book, Kele’s Secret, presents such a moment with great sympathy ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cameron and Me

By Dorothy Joan Harris, Marilyn Mets, illus.

This is a tale of usurpation and intrigue of the domestic variety, narrated in the present tense by the preschool-aged Zachary. His first-person account of how he deals with sibling rivalry is mildly entertaining and ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Long Wait

By Budge Wilson, Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

The Long Wait is a heartwarming picture book based on a true story. Ten- year-old Deirdre was a black cat that belonged to the author and her family. Every year the Wilson family travelled from ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Muddle Cuddle

By Laurel Dee Gugler, Vlasta van Kampen, illus.

Muddle Cuddle, a rhyming, rollicking tale of a daddy’s lap and the various creatures who pile into it, is pure fun for the two-to-six age group and adults who read to them. It all begins ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Farmer Joe Baby-sits

By Nancy Wilcox Richards, Werner Zimmermann, illus.

Farmer Joe is a warm-hearted, simple soul, a lovable schlemiel who gets by with a little help from his animal friends and a very competent wife. The whole crew first appeared in Farmer Joe’s Hot ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Your Own ABC

By Marcie Baron, June Bradford, illus.

Marcie Baron has taken the standard ABC colouring book and dressed it up, creating a spiral-bound, keepsake photo and art album for today’s book buyer who demands over-the-top production. Under each letter of the alphabet ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Silver Threads

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Michael Martchenko, illus.

Politics and picture books make uneasy bedfellows and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch in Silver Threads has not altogether succeeded in compressing the complexities of history into a brief story for young children. She does successfully create ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Boy Soup

By Loris Lesynski

Back when I was a living, breathing, and frequently underprepared children’s librarian I used to keep a stash of surefire, one-size-fits-all picture books for last-minute emergency storytimes. Included in this stash was Jim and the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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