Wake Up, Henry Rooster!

There is a struggle – in kids’ books, as in life – between learning to appreciate yourself as you are and admitting you need to improve. Are you an ugly duckling, soon to become a ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Queen’s Feet

By Sarah Ellis; Dusan Petricic, illus.

Ellis plies her supple storytelling skills and whimsical imagination to delectable effect in this sly, subversive fairy tale. Her drolly entertaining story explores a phenomenon familiar to parents and caregivers: how children excuse their mischief ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Raising a Little Stink

By Colleen Sydor; Pascale Constantin, illus.

What can you do if your friends and family all take advantage of your good nature? When a lazy lion, a lion tamer, and a mouse all run away from the circus because they’re tired ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

When You Were Small

By Sara O'Leary; Julie Morstad, illus.

Most children are enchanted by tales of their own antics when they were younger, and Henry’s no different. In a nightly ritual he asks his father to tell him about when he was small. And ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Who Likes the Wind?

By Etta Kaner; Marie Lafrance, illus.

Kids Can Press has released an unusual new picture book, Who Likes the Wind?, by Toronto teacher and award-winning science writer Etta Kaner. This story can be read two ways: as a simple expression of ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Grandpa’s Clock

By Rachna Gilmore; Amy Meissner, illus.

The ticking of a clock, the ticking of a heart. Rachna Gilmore’s new story is a richly textured tale of family relationships, particularly between Cayley and her grandpa, who builds clocks. When he’s hospitalized after ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ With Every Mistake

By Gwynne Dyer

A collection of newspaper columns is supposed to act as a gap-filler for a publisher and a quick ego-stroke for its author. A column, after all, is the reactionary, unreflective bastard child of the essay, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Airstream Land Yacht

By Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock’s third collection might disappoint those hoping for another clutch of tough-luck chronicles along the lines of Mean and its follow-up, Days into Flatspin. While those first two books seemed rooted in the same ... Read More »

March 27, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Inside

By Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth J. Harvey writes in short, staccato sentences. Every word a jab. A knife. A fist. Verbal cuts. Makes Hemingway seem like a blabbermouth. The Newfoundland author’s latest novel follows 2003’s The Town That Forgot ... Read More »

March 20, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Earth Magic

By Dionne Brand; Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

People who are contented and stable don’t tend to feel the need for poetry. It’s at the hinge stages of our lives – the language acquisiton heyday of early childhood, the minefield of adolescence, and ... Read More »

March 16, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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