February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
A marvellous, true Canadian story of maritime courage and ingenuity, starring a girl, a dog, and a sinking ship – the idea fairly bursts with potential. All the sharper is the disappointment, then, when the ... Read More »
Marilyn Eisenstein, author of the picture book Periwinkle Isn’t Paris, introduces us here to Kate, who doesn’t like waiting for anything: “for her hair to grow until it tickled her shoulders, for her juice to ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
While thunder rumbles outside, Little Girl’s mother sings: “It’s raining, it’s pouring,/ The Old Man is snoring,/ He went to bed with a cold in his head,/ And he didn’t get up in the morning.” ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Who among us, child and adult alike, hasn’t at one time or another dreamed up the ideal companion? With tender humour, Toronto writer and illustrator Andrea Wayne von Königslöw beguilingly captures that most universal of ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
There’s going to be a party for Bun Bun’s first birthday. Mommy, Daddy, and Eugene are busy putting up decorations and Bun Bun herself is watching the hoopla with fascination. But older sister Winifred? She’s ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Nancy Hundal and Brian Deines, the team behind Prairie Summer, tell the story of a hot afternoon in which a family enjoys the newest addition to the father’s truck fleet in an unusual way. While ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The Night Fire, by Ontario writer Lori Lukasewich, is a rhyming tale of a busy night at the local fire hall. With its behind-the-scenes look at what firefighters do before, during, and after going on ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Unlike many of his folktale counterparts, the fox that narrates Maxine Trottier’s latest picture book is no sly-talking prevaricator. Rather, this fox is a sincere creature intent on delivering a small morsel of Canadian history ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Since winning the Governor-General’s Award for her illustration of Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming in 1993, Mireille Levert has been writing and illustrating her own picture books, which include several fairy tale adaptations and the Molly ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The main character in this story inhabits the awkward social space of two very different worlds. She lives with her widowed father and maternal grandmother in a house where there is money and plenty of ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books