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Making Grizzle Grow

By Rachna Gilmore; Leslie Elizabeth Watts, illus.

Rachna Gilmore’s picture books tend toward sweet endings, but those involving family conflict, such as the GG winner A Screaming Kind of Day and the early My Mother Is Weird, also carry a satisfying bite. ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lady Ginny’s Tea Parties

By Susan Rennick Jolliffe

This whimsical book by Ottawa illustrator Susan Rennick Jolliffe is set up as the scrapbook of Lady Ginny, a very fashionable poodle who takes it upon herself to orchestrate a year’s worth of tea parties ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Bumblebee Sweater

By Betty Waterton; Kim LaFave, illus.

Betty Waterton, author of such beloved books as A Salmon for Simon and the Quincy Rumpel series, will delight children again with this droll story, jauntily illustrated by the playful, prolific Kim LaFave. A gift ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hanna Bear’s Christmas

By Monica Devine; Sean Cassidy, illus.

Quite the opposite approach [to nostalgia] is taken by Alaskan writer Monica Devine (Carry Me, Mama; The Iditarod) in Hanna Bear’s Christmas, the vividly illustrated plot-driven story of an anthropomorphic bear who requests that her ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Star for Christmas

By Trisha Romance

Autumn customarily brings an onslaught of sparkle-bound holiday books destined for children everywhere. Many are craftily created to counterbalance our culture’s increasingly aggressive consumer marketing, by reminding young people of the spirit and meaning of ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Forest for Christmas

By Michael Harris; Eric Orchard, illus.

For Emily, there’s no place better than the Friendly Forest, where she hosts woodland animals in her tree house and talks to the spruce trees. No wonder she feels panicky when, shortly before Christmas, she ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Very Serious Children

By Caroline Adderson; Joe Weissman, illus.

If you can’t get rid of the adults in a children’s book, the next best thing is to turn them into goofs. From the schlemiel in folklore to Harry Allard’s The Stupids, from Amelia Bedelia ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Be A Baby

By Sarah Withrow; Manuel Monroy, illus.

In this first picture book by Ontario YA author Sarah Withrow (author of Bat Summer, The Black Sunshine of Goody Pryne, and others), sweet and goofy couplets capture the loving wordplay that parents enjoy with ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Once upon an Elephant

By Ashok Mathur

The title brings to mind a fairy tale, but the author is being unnecessarily modest, as if trying to cram a mighty, incandescent genie into a very ordinary bottle. Once Upon an Elephant is certainly ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Blue Hippopotamus

By Phoebe Gilman; Joanne Fitzgerald, illus.

Scholastic’s North Winds Press imprint is publishing a pleasant new picture book called The Blue Hippopotamus, the last book written by the late, beloved Canadian author-illustrator Phoebe Gilman (Jillian Jiggs). Never a fan of cross-species ... Read More »

October 1, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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