★ Edmund and Hillary: A Tale from China Plate Farm

Author-illustrator Chris Jackson’s first children’s book is a funny, delightful animal fable about a somewhat unlikely friendship between a pig (Edmund) and hen (Hillary), and their attempts to find solutions for each other’s unfulfillable longings. ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Bruno Springs up

By Sylvie Daigneault

A miniature house in the woods, a teddy-like bear called Bruno with his huggable parents, neat farmers’ fields with low stone walls, flowers, birds’ nests, flop-eared bunnies, friendly forest folk, pancakes – the world of ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Mountain Alphabet

By Margriet Ruurs, Andrew Kiss, illus.

This alphabet book, set in the Canadian Rockies, devotes a page and full-colour illustration to each letter. Beneath Andrew Kiss’s oil paintings, a single sentence describes each picture, using as many words beginning with the ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Franklin’s Bad Day

By Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda Clark, illus.

Franklin’s Bad Day is the 15th title in this successful series from Kids Can. The “Franklin” series shows no signs of running out of steam, and Bourgeois and Clark continue to produce solid stories with ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Steel Drums and Ice Skates

By Dirk McLean, Ho Che Anderson, illus.

Dirk McLean has written a compelling and simple story of a young Caribbean girl coming to Canada to join her parents after two years of separation. Hollie had stayed in Trinidad with Tanty Millie when ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Basketball Player

By Roch Carrier, Sheldon Cohen, illus., Sheila Fischman, trans.

This is the fourth in a sports-related series that began with the award-winning The Hockey Sweater. Once again, Carrier portrays with humour and pathos his younger self learning a useful lesson about life. On a ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Crazy for Canada

By Noa Schwartz, Mick Beaumont and Susan Tebbutt, illus.

Librarians looking for a picture book about Canada for young children will be pleased with this offering from a small new publisher. Crazy for Canada is a short book that features each region of the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The First Red Maple Leaf

By Ludmila Zeman

This story takes place long ago in a northern world ruled by Iceheart, the terrible spirit of winter. Life is hard for people and animals alike. One day a boy finds a goose trapped beneath ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Matthew and the Midnight Ball Game

By Allen Morgan, Michael Martchenko, illus.

Just in time for baseball season comes this latest offering in the Morgan/Martchenko series about young Matthew’s dream adventures. Daytime fantasies about a ball game on World Series day become nighttime dreams of a journey ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hold On, McGinty!

By Nancy Hartry, Don Kilby, illus.

Since the 1940s when Scuffy the Tugboat and the canoe in Paddle-to-the-Sea made their epic journeys down the eastern waterways to the Atlantic, the idea of a little boat crossing the vastness of North America ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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★ Edmund and Hillary: A Tale from China Plate Farm

Bruno Springs up

A Mountain Alphabet

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Steel Drums and Ice Skates

The Basketball Player

Crazy for Canada

The First Red Maple Leaf

Matthew and the Midnight Ball Game

Hold On, McGinty!

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