February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
In Bear On the Train, a hungry bear follows the smell of grain right into a railway car. By the time the train pulls out, the bear is ready to hibernate and sleeps through the ... Read More »
Inukshuks – those strange human-like figures of piled rocks that are such a distinctive emblem of the Canadian Arctic – provide a centre for Maxine Trottier’s haunting story of a young boy lost in the ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Pete Marlowe’s new picture book tells the fanciful tale of what happens when the power goes out one night at a little girl’s home. Soon after her parents tuck her into bed for the night, ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Didi is a hyperkinetic toddler with a blonde ponytail, round tummy, and an infectious enthusiasm for her Sunday morning walks with her Dad (no Mom in evidence) on Brooklyn’s riverside Promenade. Marie-Louise Gay’s breezy illustrations ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In his playful second book for children, poet Gary Barwin riffs on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Here, a nose and his parents (two old eyes) are desperately poor, and a pair ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Addie is a little girl who is scared of almost everything. She’s scared of the turkey gobbler in the farmyard, wild things that live in the bush, and wolves that howl at night. She’s scared ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In the world of the refrigerator (a.k.a. the Wait) the goal is to be Chosen, as the Swiss cheese Louise soon discovers. Everyone there, from slices of bread to cobs of corn, is waiting to ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In Seeing and Believing, a little girl living on the shores of one of the Great Lakes in 1910 longs for her father’s return from sea. Novelist and picture book writer Eliza Clark’s powerful story ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Toronto computer programmer and ex- teacher Greg Wilson has collaborated with illustrator William Lytle to create a fanciful trio of stories with female protagonists. However, the word “sensible” in the title misled me: these stories ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
One of the classic folk tales about danger, disaster, and recovery, the Brothers Grimm story of the wolf who impersonates mother, gains entry to the house, and eats up the little kids is almost too ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books