Colors with Tropical Animals

A new board book series from Kids Can Press, Learning with Animals explains basic concepts using various groupings of animals. Each book begins with a two-page spread including all the featured animals and an inviting ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Numbers with Farm Animals

By Melanie Watt

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Dream Helmet

By William New, Vivian Bevis, illus.

Singing elephants, carousel horses that take flight, a dream helmet that will transport you anywhere – imagination reigns in this exuberant collection of poems. We hear echoes of poets as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Twelve Days of Summer

By Jan Andrews, Susan Rennick Jolliffe, illus.

From The Twelve Cats of Christmas by Kandy Radzinski to Emily Brenner’s On the First Day of Grade School, the familiar Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” has inspired lots of picture book adaptations. ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Ben Over Night

By Sarah Ellis

Governor General’s Award-winning Vancouver author and Q&Q contributing editor Sarah Ellis follows up her charming Big Ben with Ben Over Night. The youngest member of a family of five, Ben wants to sleep over at ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Omar on Board

By Maryann Kovalski

This engaging picture book glows with the feeling of summer holidays. Popular author-illustrator Maryann Kovalski, who divides her time between Toronto and New York, sets her latest story about the plump bear Omar and his ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Resurrection Blues

By Mike Tanner

Eighteen-year-old Flynn Robinson leaves high school and his sleepy suburban life to join a popular club circuit band, following his dream to be a rock musician like his Uncle Ray, who’s spent his whole life ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Quid Pro Quo

By Vicki Grant

The narration of teen Cyril MacIntyre in the comic legal thriller Quid Pro Quo has the kind of timing, pacing, deadpan one-liners, and punchy humour that a seasoned stand-up comic would envy. No wonder that ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last

By Susan Juby

Fans of Susan Juby’s first two Alice books will find themselves well rewarded for the wait for the third. Here we catch up with Alice, still living in the small B.C. interior town of Smithers, ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Where’s Mom’s Hair? A Family’s Journey Through Cancer

By Debbie Watters, with Haydn and Emmett Watters, Sophie Hogan, photog.

Children tend to worry about things that are concrete and visible, so when a parent has cancer, kids often focus on hair loss. Their parent looks very different and might be quite self-conscious about this. ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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Colors with Tropical Animals

Numbers with Farm Animals

★ Dream Helmet

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Ben Over Night

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Resurrection Blues

★ Quid Pro Quo

Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last

Where’s Mom’s Hair? A Family’s Journey Through Cancer

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