Kids’ Books

Making Bones Walk

Making Bones Walk is the first full-length collection for Toronto poet Alex Boyd. It’s a promising debut, solid, trim, and occasionally arresting (especially “Twenty Three Minutes for Everything,” the one standout poem in the book), ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

High Speed Through Shoaling Water

By Tom Wayman

Political proselytizing has been something of a vocation for Calgary-based writer and teacher Tom Wayman since the publication of his first book in 1973. In High Speed Through Shoaling Water, his 17th collection, Wayman cleaves ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

That Stripy Cat

By Norene Smiley; Tara Anderson, illus.

Written by Halifax author Norene Smiley, That Stripy Cat tells the story of a cat that seems difficult to love but still manages to find a home. At the Hummingbird Animal Shelter, the stripy cat ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Looking for Loons

By Jennifer Lloyd; Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus.

In a cottage by a lake, golden sunlight wakes a young boy named Patrick. Carefully reaching for his binoculars, he creeps out of the bedroom, telling his sister Emily he’s off to look for loons. ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cinderella

By Michele Marineau; Mylene Pratt, illus.

Does the world need another Cinderella? The tale has been retold for millennia, from China to Hollywood, from the Brothers Grimm to Roald Dahl. Something in the old classic of oppressed heroine and oppressing stepfamily ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mr. Gaugin’s Heart

By Marie-Danielle Croteau; Isabelle Arsenault, illus.; Susan Ouriou, trans.

In the whimsical picture-book biography Mr. Gauguin’s Heart, Québécoise writer Marie-Danielle Croteau tells how the young Paul Gauguin discovers painting after his father dies. While the family is travelling to Peru, Mr. Gauguin dies suddenly, ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting

By Hugh Brewster; John Singer Sargent, illus.

Between 1885 and 1887, renowned expat American painter John Singer Sargent crafted his most famous work. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, a study of two girls in a garden lighting paper lanterns, is brought to life ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Way Cool License Plate Book

By Leonard Wise

Toronto writer and license plate buff Leonard Wise devotes himself to the weird and wonderful world of vanity license plates in this 64-page compendium of plate history, road-trip games, and notable examples of North American ... Read More »

June 26, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Toopy Goes Bananas

By Dominique Jolin and Carole Tremblay

Award-winning French Canadian author and illustrator Dominique Jolin has developed a successful empire based on the adventures of Toopy, a mouse with a wild imagination, and Binoo, his silent-but-game cat companion. The original stories translated ... Read More »

June 18, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Colours of My Home: A Portrait of Newfoundland & Labrador

By Susan Pynn; Nancy Keating, illus.

Two Newfoundland sisters, Susan Pynn and Nancy Keating, have put together a pleasant book celebrating their home province. The Colours of My Home takes the reader on a colour-coded tour of Newfoundland and Labrador, highlighting ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Quill and Quire

Making Bones Walk

High Speed Through Shoaling Water

That Stripy Cat

Looking for Loons

Cinderella

Mr. Gaugin’s Heart

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting

The Way Cool License Plate Book

Toopy Goes Bananas

The Colours of My Home: A Portrait of Newfoundland & Labrador

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