Picture Books

★ Nancy Knows

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

The Lion and the Bird

By Marianne Dubuc; Claudia Z. Bedrick (trans.)

From Quebec illustrator and author Marianne Dubuc, The Lion and the Bird is a sweetly sentimental tale about friendship, the passing of time, and letting go. One autumn day, Lion is working in his garden ... Read More »

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

★ Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

By Christine Baldacchino; Isabelle Malenfant (illus.)

Morris Micklewhite is an imaginative little boy who loves pancakes, painting, singing, and his cat, Moo. His favourite part of school is the dress-up centre – the beautiful tangerine dress he puts on there reminds ... Read More »

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

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