Cappuccina is a cow with a wandering eye. Watching people drive by her field on their way to town, she longs to sample freedom and seizes the chance when a storm knocks a hole in ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Marie Day’s latest picture book is a comic, fable-like story about creativity, mental illness, and the healing powers of friendship. One morning Charlie, a young boy, sees a homeless man named Edward dressed in a ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Kim Bellefontaine’s ABC is a better tool for teaching toddlers about Canada than for teaching the alphabet. Young readers catch glimpses of some of our cities and tourist spots. They are introduced to ice fishing, ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
With primary school audiences, there are few crowd-pleasers as reliable as toilet humour. Whether it’s jokes about farts or superheroes in underpants, anything along this subversive line hits the mark. In Ruth Miller’s new book, ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
I love to hop,/It’s hard to stop!/I’m a hop hop hoppity frog.”So goes the opening stanza of a rhyming picture book about a little frog who can’t sit still and hops all day long, leaving ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Even though Ian Wallace is best known as an illustrator, his text is stronger than his artwork in The True Story of Trapper Jack’s Left Big Toe. Wallace’s writing captures both the hyperbole of the ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
This picture book by well-known Ontario illustrator and author Eugenie Fernandes reads almost like a folktale: a child welcomes one pet into her home, then another, then another, leaving readers to wonder where it will ... Read More »
January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Books representing an Islamic perspective garner a lot of interest these days, and Aziz the Storyteller draws on that interest in both its subject matter and its presentation. Though it’s an original story, this first ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Jessica’s X-Ray provides a look at health care from the perspective of a child. After falling from a tree, young Jessica is taken to the hospital where a doctor orders an x-ray of her arm. ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Since her first print appearance in 1697, in Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose’s Tales, Cinderella has maintained a dizzily high profile. Featured more frequently than any other fairy-tale character, the char maiden turned princess has represented ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
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