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★ The Boy Who Ate the World (and the girl who saved it)

By Don Gillmor; Pierre Pratt, illus.

Don Gillmor’s delightfully alarming new picture book begins with the absurd premise that a boy could eat up so much of the world that “The earth wasn’t even round any more. It was shaped like ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Anything But Hank!

By Rachel Lebowitz and Zachariah Wells; Eric Orchard, illus.

Anything But Hank aims high, attempting to combine Lewis Carroll’s whimsy with Robert Service’s sense of rough adventure. Or so says the jacket blurb. The cover art hints at action and weirdness, with a baby ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Woman Who Married a Bear

By Elizabeth James; Atanas, illus.

The oral traditions of many of the First Nations of Western Canada and the U.S. include a story about a woman who married a bear. While peripheral details vary from nation to nation, the stories ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes

By Jordan D. Troutt; Sarah Preston-Bloor, illus.

Twenty-six precocious youngsters eat, sing, and pirouette their way through Jordan D. Troutt’s first children’s book, The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes. Troutt features one child for every letter of the alphabet, encapsulating their personality ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Where You Came From

By Sara O’Leary; Julie Morstad, illus.

Anyone picking up Where You Came From expecting a scientifically solemn and medically correct account of the facts of life for pre-schoolers is in for a surprise. In this, a follow-up to Sara O’Leary and ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Sir Reginald’s Logbook

By Matt Hammill

Though its target readership probably won’t notice, older readers – as in 30-plus years of age – might find that the title character of author/illustrator Matt Hammill’s first book bears a striking resemblance to Uncle ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Sleeping Porch

Ian Wallace, the veteran Canadian-born children’s author and illustrator, begins his latest picture book in an unidentified American town. (Wallace now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, a likely contender.) Young Brando is attempting to catch a ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Naomi’s Tree

By Joy Kogawa; Ruth Ohi, illus.

Novelist and poet Joy Kogawa has added another volume to her oeuvre about the experiences of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi’s Tree is a folk tale based on Kogawa’s childhood memories. It ... Read More »

July 7, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Up Home

By Shauntay Grant; Susan Tooke, illus.

A real community, complete with vividly drawn portraits of real residents, comes to life in Shauntay Grant and Susan Tooke’s Up Home, a tender portrayal of Grant’s memories of growing up in the close-knit black ... Read More »

July 7, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Art’s Supplies

By Chris Tougas

In last year’s Mechanimals, author/illustrator Chris Tougas married an original idea – a farmer who has lost his animals creates delightful new mechanical ones – to charmingly offbeat illustrations. With Art’s Supplies, he tells a ... Read More »

July 2, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

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