March 16, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Next-door neighbours Harry and Walter are best friends. Harry is four and three-quarters and Walter is 92 and a half. Despite the generation gap, the “boys” do everything together, from making paper airplanes to building ... Read More »
Budding bibliophiles will find much to enjoy in two new picture books that celebrate the joys of reading. These love songs to literacy each have their own stylish flair, from a bubbly let’s-get-this-party-started jig to ... Read More »
February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Budding bibliophiles will find much to enjoy in two new picture books that celebrate the joys of reading. These love songs to literacy each have their own stylish flair, from a bubbly let’s-get-this-party-started jig to ... Read More »
February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
If ever there was a book that could calm a child and draw her into meditative contemplation (perhaps right before bed?), The White Cat and the Monk is it. Guelph, Ontario–based author Jo Ellen Bogart ... Read More »
February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Dogs and picture books might be the most ideal pairing of subject and artistic form. Even film cannot fully capture the twitch of an eyebrow, the slow thump of a tail that crescendos to pure ... Read More »
January 25, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Dogs and picture books might be the most ideal pairing of subject and artistic form. Even film cannot fully capture the twitch of an eyebrow, the slow thump of a tail that crescendos to pure ... Read More »
January 25, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
In this celebration of the winds of the world, poet Barbara Nickel embeds a subtle message of global unity and peace. A young boy asks the wind where it lives and the wind answers by ... Read More »
January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Parents of small children know that sometimes they seem to move as slowly as sloths, and author Jan Thornhill builds on this truism in her latest book. Three-toed sloth Kyle may only have to go ... Read More »
January 6, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Toronto illustrator Gracia Lam lends her artistic talent to American author Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s gorgeous and whimsical picture book, which uses the first three letters of the alphabet as the jumping-off point for a series ... Read More »
January 6, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Dogs and picture books might be the most ideal pairing of subject and artistic form. Even film cannot fully capture the twitch of an eyebrow, the slow thump of a tail that crescendos to pure ... Read More »
January 6, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books