Picture Books

The Blind Boy and the Loon

By Alethea Arnaquq-Baril; Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Daniel Gies (illus.)

A boy who was once a great hunter has gone blind, and is forced by his mother to live on the porch and eat dog meat. Seething with resentment, he seeks answers from the red-throated ... Read More »

August 14, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

O’Shae the Octopus

By Brandee Bublé; Eliska Liska (illus.)

O’Shae is a young octopus who was born with 10 arms. His mother thinks O’Shae’s two extra limbs make him special, and he has no reason to think otherwise, especially since his bonus appendages are ... Read More »

August 14, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Nancy Knows

By Cybèle Young

In the latest delightful picture book from Cybèle Young, a little elephant named Nancy struggles to remember something she knows is important. In the process, she recalls many things – just not the one she ... Read More »

August 14, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Shadow Chasers

By Elly MacKay

In 1872, poet Edward Lear published More Nonsense, a collection of limericks. Lear’s scratchy black-and-white line drawings portrayed all manner of grotesque persons engaged in bizarre behaviour, from teaching fish to walk to eating weird ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Julia, Child

By Kyo Maclear; Julie Morstad (illus.)

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

If I Wrote a Book About You

By Stephany Aulenback; Denise Holmes (illus.)

If I Wrote a Book About You, by Nova Scotia writer and editor Stephany Aulenback and Chicago-based illustrator Denise Holmes, follows a mother and daughter through a typical day, during which the mother tells the ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Wow Wow and Haw Haw

By George Murray; Michael Pittman (illus.)

The world of children’s fables is a veritable zoo of interspecies moral-making. Newfoundland poet George Murray and painter Michael Pittman join the fray with their first picture book, starring a fox named Wow Wow, a ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ From There to Here

By Laurel Croza; Matt James (illus.)

The young girl from Laurel Croza’s 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award–winning I Know Here has moved across the country and, as she wistfully explains, “It is different here, not the same as there.” In ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Peach Girl

By Raymond Nakamura; Rebecca Bender (illus.)

In his engaging debut, author Raymond Nakamura puts a feminist bent on the Japanese folk tale Momotaro (Peach Boy). In Nakamura’s version, a young girl emerges from a giant peach discovered on the doorstep of ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Cloudwalker

By Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; Roy Henry Vickers (Illus.)

Illustrated by the much-honoured and beloved artist Roy Henry Vickers, Cloudwalker is a visually glorious book. Vickers and oral historian Robert Budd joined forces on last year’s lauded Raven Brings the Light, and with this ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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