February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
With their jaunty rhymes, nonsensical humour, and fascination with food, animals, and weather, nursery rhymes have a timeless appeal rediscovered by each new generation of parents and children. This delightful collection was first published in ... Read More »
Gofrette, a chunky black-and-white cat done in bold outline and felt marker, first appeared in a wallpaper pattern by Brasset and Michot working together as designers under the name Zanimo. Now Zanimo is the land ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Gofrette, a chunky black-and-white cat done in bold outline and felt marker, first appeared in a wallpaper pattern by Brasset and Michot working together as designers under the name Zanimo. Now Zanimo is the land ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Gofrette, a chunky black-and-white cat done in bold outline and felt marker, first appeared in a wallpaper pattern by Brasset and Michot working together as designers under the name Zanimo. Now Zanimo is the land ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Gofrette, a chunky black-and-white cat done in bold outline and felt marker, first appeared in a wallpaper pattern by Brasset and Michot working together as designers under the name Zanimo. Now Zanimo is the land ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
If the experience of five-year-old Angelina Domino is a reliable guide, facing your fears is a lot like entering cold water. You can ease in gradually and hope for smooth acclimatization or you can plunge ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Picture books about the reassurance of parental love have become standard over the last 50 years, with some, like Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever, proving lucrative beyond anyone’s wildest imaginings. It is gratifying, then, to ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
When Jack and Angus move with their mother from a large house to a smaller one, they complain incessantly about the lack of space: “We miss our old house,/This house is too small./ There’s nowhere ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Young Winnipeg illustrator/writer Jenny Visscher transforms the seemingly mundane but essential children’s activity of learning to count into an enticing enterprise in her counting book, I Can Have My Picnic in a Patch of Roses. ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
A young girl named Xiao Ling Li decides to make a scrapbook to share with her unborn sibling about the special day in February when she and her parents became Canadian citizens. By revealing the ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books