February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Lavender Moon is the name of the woman who has served up cherry pie and coffee in a small café to the passengers of the late-night bus for 20 years. As time passes, Lavender Moon ... Read More »
Where is Kevin Major going? Twenty years ago, the young Newfoundland author burst onto the literary scene with a proud, angry young-adult novel called Hold Fast that won a Canada Council Award for Children’s Literature ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Anyone who’s read the liner notes from a favourite record or CD knows how flat and even clumsy song lyrics can sound alone on paper. Yet children’s songs are often produced in picturebook form. When ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Anyone who’s read the liner notes from a favourite record or CD knows how flat and even clumsy song lyrics can sound alone on paper. Yet children’s songs are often produced in picturebook form. When ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
This book has “beautiful” written all over it, full of deep snowdrifts and cozy three-storey Victorian houses with your own beautiful room at the top. Written in the lyrical style of Hundal’s award-winning I Heard ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The story of the Moccasin Goalie continues: Danny, Petou, and Anita have been asked to play for the Wolves, and the team has made it to the finals. That alone should prove the three are ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Remember Jeremy and the Aunties, that funny 1992 novel about the old-lady mannequins who come to life? Here is the sequel, which may also be read on its own, thanks to the handy little prologue. ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The intriguing full-colour cover illustration for The Fox’s Kettle depicts a fox-headed samurai heading straight for the reader, a kettle firmly held under his arm. Is this magical fox friend or foe? All the villagers, ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Nadine is a cow with a perfect life. She lives on a farm with kindly old Pete, and although the other cows laugh at her for wandering off on her own to search for stones, ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Sanromán and Domi live in Guadalajara, where the author produces cultural television programs and the artist runs a studio specializing in pottery and engravings. This is a first book for each of them, and it ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books