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★ The Divide

By Michael Bedard, Emily Arnold McCully, illus.

In 1883, when Willa Cather was nine years old, her family moved from Virginia to an isolated Nebraska farm on the Divide, a broad plateau between the Little Blue and Republican rivers. This long, uncomfortable ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Rodeo Pup

By Lisa Rotenberg

Colour and design are standout features of this first picture book by Toronto artist Lisa Rotenberg. Rodeo Pup is about a young Dalmatian who runs afoul of his young owner and then redeems himself with ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Kitoto the Mighty

By Tololwa M. Mollel, Kristi Frost, illus.

This new book adds to the treasury of African stories, traditional and modern, that Tololwa Mollel has brought to Canadian children’s literature from his Tanzanian background. As he explains in a note at the end ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Good Companion

By Joan Skogan, Stephen McCallum, illus.

The Good Companion is a successful fishing boat whose captain takes no chances with the luck of his vessel. Everything is arranged according to tradition. The same meals are served in the same order every ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Legend of the Panda

By Linda Granfield, Song Nan Zhang, illus.

Far more satisfying in a literary sense than debates about the origins of the panda’s distinctive black and white colouring is this charming but tragic pourquoi tale from China. A cover illustration of two plump ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Prairie Willow

By Maxine Trottier, Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson, illus.

This achingly beautiful story of a young girl and her pioneer family evokes the vastness of the land, the whisper of the wind, and the promise and hope of the people who settled the endless ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Gilbert De La Frogponde

By Jennifer Rae, Rose Cowles, illus.

The idea of eating strange and repulsive food often strikes children as very funny, and is the basis of humour in this rollicking picture book. It’s the first children’s book for both author Jennifer Rae, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Angel Tree

By Robin Muller

Kit is an orphan, apprenticed to the cruel and greedy blacksmith Grimshaw. Kit savours the little beauty to be found in his grim, smoky world – the song of a sparrow, a dying tree outside ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lavender Moon

By Troon Harrison, Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

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 »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The House of Wooden Santas

By Kevin Major,Imelda George, carver

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

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