★ Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox

Every so often, a picture book comes along that is so beautiful in its simplicity, it breathes a pocket of stillness into our busy lives and inspires thoughtful reflection long after the final page is ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Princess and the Pony

By Kate Beaton

It would be easy to assume, based on this book’s title, that it is nothing more than another bit of inconsequential fluff designed to sate the bottomless appetites of six-year-old girls for all things princess-ified ... Read More »

July 2, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Song for a Summer Night: A Lullaby

By Robert Heidbreder; Qin Leng (illus.)

The sun goes down, the children gather, and the animals come out to sing. So begins Vancouver poet Robert Heidbreder’s enchanting bedtime tale Song for a Summer Night. As a curtain of stars is thrown ... Read More »

June 23, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

King of Keji

By Jan L. Coates; Patsy MacKinnon (illus.)

What makes a king? Is it his sceptre, jewels, and crown? Or is it something less tangible? When young Jacob complains that his brother always gets to be king of the castle, Gramps takes Jacob ... Read More »

June 23, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Rosie and Rolland in the Legendary Show-and-Tell

By Jon Berg

Rosie is excited when she’s finally picked to bring something to class the next day for show and tell. She’s less excited when her nemesis, Freddy Jones, is also chosen. What can she bring that ... Read More »

June 23, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Wild Ideas: Let Nature Inspire Your Thinking

By Elin Kelsey; Soyeon Kim (illus.)

Elin Kelsey and Soyeon Kim have done it again. Their first collaboration, 2012’s You Are Stardust, was a breath of fresh air, inventive in its theme and gorgeous diorama-based illustration. Wild Ideas is equally delightful ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ This is Sadie

By Sara O’Leary; Julie Morstad (illus.)

Sadie is precocious. Sadie is adventurous. Sadie travels the world by ship without ever leaving her bedroom. In This is Sadie, Sara O’Leary and Julie Morstad – the writer and illustrator of the award-winning Henry ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Eat, Leo! Eat!

By Caroline Adderson; Josée Bisaillon (illus.)

Every Sunday, young Leo visits his nonna, who serves up a delizioso homemade pasta lunch for her extended family. These meals are clearly a big deal, but Leo wants no part of them. One Sunday, ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Butterfly Park

By Elly MacKay

Owen Sound, Ontario, artist and author Elly MacKay caught our eye with her debut picture book, If You Hold a Seed (Running Press Kids/PGC) in 2013. Since then, MacKay has kept busy, releasing her second ... Read More »

May 5, 2015 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Outstanding in the Rain: A Whole Story With Holes

By Frank Viva

Every actor, the cliché goes, wants to direct. And if an actor becomes famous and powerful enough, chances are that desire will be fulfilled – whether or not talent in front of the camera translates ... Read More »

April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

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