The Babe Ruth Ballet School

“The last nine-year-old girl to play Big League baseball was Issy Archer of the 1923 New York Yankees.” All great fantasy books begin like this right off the bat because good fantasy doesn’t pussyfoot around ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Grandpa’s Visit

By Richardo Keens-Douglas, Frances Clancy, illus.

When Grandpa comes to visit, what begins as a surprise for young Jeremy and his parents turns into a shock for the old man. He has travelled all the way from the Caribbean on his ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

What’s He Doing Now?

By Patti Farmer, Janet Wilson, illus.

When a child asks where a baby brother or sister comes from, one tends to grope about in that vast area of response between the cabbage patch and the path to conception. Via a good-humoured ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Eenie Meenie Manitoba: Playful Poems and Rollicking Rhymes

By Robert Heidbreder, Scot Ritchie, illus.

This book contains some reworked traditional rhymes and some original poems. “To Be or Not to Be” is an updated version of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor” with modern occupations added and all possible offensive stereotypes ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Roses for Gita

By Rachna Gilmore, Alice Priestley, illus.

This is Rachna Gilmore’s second story about Gita. In Lights for Gita this young immigrant from India received a cold welcome to Canada when a sleet storm all but ruined her Divali, the Hindu festival ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Beetle Bedlam

By Vlasta van Kampen

Vlasta van Kampen thanks scientists and technicians at Agriculture Canada’s Centre for Land and Biological Resources at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa for their interest and continuous flow of information over the three years ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

If You Could Wear My Sneakers!

By Sheree Fitch, Darcia Labrosse, illus.

Award-winning performance poet Sheree Fitch (author of There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen and Mable Murple) has teamed with illustrator Darcia Labrosse to produce a book of poems about children’s rights. Peter Gzowski provides the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Pod of Orcas: A Seaside Counting Book

By Sheryl McFarlane, Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus

A rhyming counting book is hard to execute well, but A Pod of Orcas has risen to the challenge with expert craft. Sheryl McFarlane (author of Waiting for the Whales and Jessie’s Island) starts with ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Llamas in the Laundry

By William New, Vivian Bevis, illus.

As a companion volume to Vanilla Go rilla (1998), Llamas in the Laundry features children’s poetry with plentiful illustrations. The book’s strengths lie in a few nonsensical skipping rhymes with strong rhythms and vivid images ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Anna’s Goat

By Janice Kulyk Keefer, Janet Wilson , illus.

We live in a time when to be a migrant or refugee is one of the commonest human conditions,” writes Janice Kulyk Keefer, who has memorably addressed the refugee experience in her award-winning fiction and ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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The Babe Ruth Ballet School

Grandpa’s Visit

What’s He Doing Now?

Eenie Meenie Manitoba: Playful Poems and Rollicking Rhymes

Roses for Gita

Beetle Bedlam

If You Could Wear My Sneakers!

A Pod of Orcas: A Seaside Counting Book

Llamas in the Laundry

Anna’s Goat

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