Picture Books

Loula Is Leaving for Africa

Loula can’t stand her three roughhousing brothers. The final indignity comes when she is waylaid while carrying her tea set, so self-possessed Loula takes action to escape the “mean, terrible, stinky” triplets and punish her ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Once Upon a Northern Night

By Jean E. Pendziwol; Isabelle Arsenault, illus.

A parent’s vision of a wintry Northern idyll leaps beautifully to life in this collaboration by author Jean E. Pendziwol and illustrator Isabelle Arsenault. As a young child sleeps snugly inside the comfort of a ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Hoogie in the Middle

By Stephanie McLellan; Dean Griffiths, illus.

Scene: two children stand in the late afternoon sunlight comparing shadows. The little brother says, “Look! I’m long!” His older sister replies, “I’m longer.” Siblings give us our first experience of the tyranny of comparison. ... Read More »

June 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Community Soup

By Alma Fullerton

In this Stone Soup—flavoured story, a Kenyan school is busy with lunchtime preparations. While the teachers stir the broth, students pick vegetables from the community garden. Kioni is late – she’s looking for her goats, ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Dark

By Lemony Snicket; Jon Klassen, illus.

The Dark is a fantastic collision of literary phenomena: Lemony Snicket and Caldecott Medal winner Jon Klassen (This Is Not My Hat), who together create a story evoking the spooky old poem “In a Dark, ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten

By Maureen Fergus; Mike Lowery, illus.

Being a kid in kindergarten is tough, especially when your mom comes to spend the day at school. But in this delightful role-reversal tale, it’s Mom who acts out while her daughter hangs her head ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ In the Tree House

By Andrew Larsen; Dušan Petricic, illus.

April 23, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

What’s Going on at the Time Tonight?

By Gerald Mercer; Holly DeWolf, illus.

Long before modern distractions like video games and television, Newfoundlanders spent their evenings sharing stories and playing music. Whether they took place in homes or community halls, these parties, called “times,” were filled with song, ... Read More »

April 23, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ How To

By Julie Morstad

From the outset, it’s clear that Julie Morstad’s How To is a very special book. Each page features the Vancouver artist’s trademark pen-and-ink drawings of kids just being kids: taking things slow (by lying in ... Read More »

April 23, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ A Long Way Away

By Frank Viva

Lauded graphic designer and commercial illustrator Frank Viva takes the mastery of avant-garde picture-book creation he displayed in his 2011 debut, Along a Long Road, to a staggering level in his third title. This self-proclaimed ... Read More »

April 23, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

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