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 »
Harry the cake decorator makes “marzipan toes on twirling ballerinas…and caramel trains chugging down chocolate tracks,” to the delight of his customers and his after-school friend, Ben. When new owners demand “young bakers, not old,” ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
When Captain Plunk recovers a floating treasure chest from a ship that has just been sunk, he and his rascally crew are astonished and dismayed to find that it contains not precious pearls but Precious ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Many families treasure the precocious sayings of their very young, later bringing them out on public occasions to the chagrin of the original speaker. Poets’ families no doubt accumulate better bon mots than most; thus ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Ainslie Manson is well known for fine historical picture books such as A Dog Came, Too and Just Like New. Her latest, a picture-book biography of Sir John A. Macdonald’s disabled daughter, Mary, is not ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
As we know from The Little Prince, taming an animal (or flower) is an emotional process. Fog Cat chronicles young Hannah’s attempts to tame a cat living wild by the sea. Hannah lives with her ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Dramas in miniature, scripts for soothing a cranky baby, subversive vehicles of protest, found poems, challenges, invitations to dance and song – nursery rhymes are one of the great gifts of the language. In this ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Well-known Canadian illustrator Janet Wilson has created a book that melds fiction and non-fiction to highlight events and achievements of the 20th century. A conversation between Great Aunt Violet and her great grandniece Elizabeth flows ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
On a little island in a sea of the imagination, a boy and his animal friends watch the world drift by. Nothing happens, the boy narrator tells us throughout this deceptively simple picture book, but ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Annalise the witch, Ernie the ghost, and Milton the skeleton live happily together in a haunted house where they keep up appearances by smearing dirt on the windows, peeling the paint from the boards, and ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books