Quill and Quire

Kids’ Books

Prev 253 254255256 257....308 309 Next

Papier-mâché

By Renée Schwarz

Strips of newspaper, empty juice containers, detergent boxes, twist ties, toilet paper rolls: in Papier-Mâché, an activity book for young readers, writer and illustrator Renée Schwarz enthusiastically demonstrates how these ordinary household materials (essentially garbage) ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Teeth That Stab and Grind

By Diane Swanson

Award-winning nature author Diane Swanson has just released the third and fourth books in her Up Close series (previous titles are Tails That Talk and Fly and Noses That Plow and Poke.) Beyond the catchy ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Feet That Suck and Feed

By Diane Swanson

Award-winning nature author Diane Swanson has just released the third and fourth books in her Up Close series (previous titles are Tails That Talk and Fly and Noses That Plow and Poke.) Beyond the catchy ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Finding Out About Dinosaurs

Ideas about dinosaurs are always changing.” This statement, made near the end of Kelsey’s book, represents its theme. Rather than presenting a series of facts as in most dinosaur books, the author informs readers about ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Imagine That!

By Janet Wilson

Well-known Canadian illustrator Janet Wilson has created a book that melds fiction and non-fiction to highlight events and achievements of the 20th century. A conversation between Great Aunt Violet and her great grandniece Elizabeth flows ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ On My Island

By Marie-Louise Gay

On a little island in a sea of the imagination, a boy and his animal friends watch the world drift by. Nothing happens, the boy narrator tells us throughout this deceptively simple picture book, but ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Ghouls’ Night Out

By Janice MacDonald, Pamela Breeze Currie, illus.

Annalise the witch, Ernie the ghost, and Milton the skeleton live happily together in a haunted house where they keep up appearances by smearing dirt on the windows, peeling the paint from the boards, and ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Miss Meow Pageant

By Richardo Keens-Douglas, Marie Lafrance, illus.

The Miss Meow Pageant, the fifth book from Toronto writer and storyteller Richardo Keens-Douglas, is the story of Henrietta’s cat, Sparrow, one of the ugliest cats in the feline world. Things change for Sparrow when ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Boy in the Attic

By Paul Yee, Gu Xiong, illus.

In this latest book by Paul Yee, who chronicles the Chinese Canadian experience so well, Kai-ming, a seven-year-old newly immigrated from a Chinese village, befriends the ghost of seven-year-old Benjamin, who died in the same ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

By Michael David Kwan

Despite its unprepossessing title, Vancouverite Michael David Kwan’s memoir, spanning the mid-1930s to the late ’40s, is an engrossing book. The son of a young Swiss woman (who quickly disappears from his life) and a ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Prev 253 254255256 257....308 309 Next