Mom and Mum Are Getting Married

Same-sex marriage is the most topical of topics these days, and this friendly picture book by well-known Toronto children’s author and librarian Ken Setterington makes a pleasant contribution to the growing number of books for ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Penguin and the Pea

By Janet Perlman

Janet Perlman’s fairy tale penguins return in a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea. Keeping Andersen’s basic storyline, Perlman, an Academy Award-nominated animation filmmaker and children’s author, adds detail to expand ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Second Is a Hiccup

By Hazel Hutchins, Kady MacDonald Denton, illus.

Albertan author Hazel Hutchins has created an engaging structure for her book about time. The length of verse always approximates the amount of time described. She defines a second in a couple of phrases, a ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Peg and the Yeti

By Kenneth Oppel, Barbara Reid, illus.

The remarkable Kenneth Oppel shows his mastery here of yet another type of children’s writing: the tall tale as picture book. Like his extremely popular Silverwing series, the Peg books (this is the second) feature ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Last Chance Bay

By Anne Laurel Carter

In 1936 Beryl Markham, the British pioneer aviator, attempted the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from England to New York. Battling low cloud, tempestuous weather, and a frozen fuel line that twice nearly stalled her ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Esther

By Sharon McKay

Stories of girls who pass as boys have been a perennial favourite in children’s historical fiction. In Esther, Sharon McKay (Charlie Wilcox’s Great War) explores this theme with a novel based on the true tale ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

So Cool

By Dennis Lee, Maryann Kovalski, illus.

Dennis Lee broke new ground in Canadian children’s poetry when his first collections appeared 30 years ago. Decades before Captain Underpants and Walter the Farting Dog arrived on the scene, Lee was gleefully serving up ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Big Why

By Michael Winter

For the past several years it’s seemed as if everyone and their aunt is writing historical novels. Even so, it’s hard to avoid surprise when a writer such as Newfoundland’s Michael Winter – known for ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Animals and Their Mates: How Animals Attract, Fight for and Protect Each Other

By Pamela Hickman, Pat Stephens, illus.

For most kids, especially those with pets, the mystery of animal birth is revealed fairly early. Animal sex comes a little later. But unless they’ve watched a lot of nature television, the rituals of animal ... Read More »

September 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Over in the Meadow

By Jan Thornhill

Over in the meadow in the sand in the sun,/Lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one.” So begins this traditional 19th-century counting rhyme, which introduces young children to 10 animal babies and ... Read More »

September 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Prev 203 204205206 207....308 309 Next

Quill and Quire

Mom and Mum Are Getting Married

The Penguin and the Pea

A Second Is a Hiccup

★ Peg and the Yeti

Last Chance Bay

Esther

So Cool

The Big Why

Animals and Their Mates: How Animals Attract, Fight for and Protect Each Other

Over in the Meadow

Job Board