January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Trickster extraordinaire Anancy the Spider can’t help bragging that his adventures are bigger and better than everyone else’s. When his little spider friends throw him a big beach party in the shadow of a haunted ... Read More »
Long ago in India, a young worrywart hare settles down for a nap, only to be startled by a falling mango. It sounds like an explosion, and she panics, shouting, “The world is breaking up!” ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The power of music to console and preserve is the underlying story of this new picture book based on the recording by Classical Kids of the same title. Darker in its subject matter than other ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Dianna Bonder, illustrator of A Pacific Alphabet, has produced another abcedarium, this one chronicling the misadventures of 26 characters in rhyming verse. This is the first book that Bonder, an artist based near Vancouver, has ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
At first glance, Montreal native Gilles Tibo’s new picture book seems based on an odd premise: that sometimes kids don’t have enough fun. Nicolas, the hero, finds that whenever he has trouble doing something, a ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
A mother and her little boy, and a polar bear and cub, have much in common in Shutta Crum’s newest picture book. Click! tells the parallel story of how the offspring of two mother hunters (one ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The impulse to put on a show – to roll up the rugs and raid the dressup box, to decorate the dog and broadcast a little glitter – this is the energy that lies behind ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
The impulse to put on a show – to roll up the rugs and raid the dressup box, to decorate the dog and broadcast a little glitter – this is the energy that lies behind ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Is hockey still at the heart of the Canadian psyche? Is it still our defining myth? It’s the kind of topic the CBC would turn into a rambling, multi-part documentary. Hockey’s a bigger business than ... Read More »
December 10, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
Is hockey still at the heart of the Canadian psyche? Is it still our defining myth? It’s the kind of topic the CBC would turn into a rambling, multi-part documentary. Hockey’s a bigger business than ... Read More »
December 10, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books