Picture Books

Gofrette: Fat, Furry and Funny

Gofrette, a chunky black-and-white cat done in bold outline and felt marker, first appeared in a wallpaper pattern by Brasset and Michot working together as designers under the name Zanimo. Now Zanimo is the land ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Gofrette: Hot Chocolate Moose

By Doris Brasset and Fabienne Michot

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Fear of Angelina Domino

By Budge Wilson, Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

If the experience of five-year-old Angelina Domino is a reliable guide, facing your fears is a lot like entering cold water. You can ease in gradually and hope for smooth acclimatization or you can plunge ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ The Chicken Cat

By Stephanie Simpson McLellan, Sean Cassidy, illus.

Picture books about the reassurance of parental love have become standard over the last 50 years, with some, like Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever, proving lucrative beyond anyone’s wildest imaginings. It is gratifying, then, to ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Too Small

By Ann Blades

When Jack and Angus move with their mother from a large house to a smaller one, they complain incessantly about the lack of space: “We miss our old house,/This house is too small./ There’s nowhere ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

I Can Have My Picnic in a Patch of Roses

By Jenny Visscher

Young Winnipeg illustrator/writer Jenny Visscher transforms the seemingly mundane but essential children’s activity of learning to count into an enticing enterprise in her counting book, I Can Have My Picnic in a Patch of Roses. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

From Far and Wide: A Canadian Citizenship Scrapbook

By Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet, Song Nan Zhang, illus

A young girl named Xiao Ling Li decides to make a scrapbook to share with her unborn sibling about the special day in February when she and her parents became Canadian citizens. By revealing the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Each One Special

By Frieda Wishinsky, H. Werner Zimmermann, illus.

Harry the cake decorator makes “marzipan toes on twirling ballerinas…and caramel trains chugging down chocolate tracks,” to the delight of his customers and his after-school friend, Ben. When new owners demand “young bakers, not old,” ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pirate Pearl

By Phoebe Gilman

When Captain Plunk recovers a floating treasure chest from a ship that has just been sunk, he and his rascally crew are astonished and dismayed to find that it contains not precious pearls but Precious ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dreams Are More Real than Bathtubs

By Susan Musgrave, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Many families treasure the precocious sayings of their very young, later bringing them out on public occasions to the chagrin of the original speaker. Poets’ families no doubt accumulate better bon mots than most; thus ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Gofrette: Fat, Furry and Funny

Gofrette: Hot Chocolate Moose

The Fear of Angelina Domino

★ The Chicken Cat

Too Small

I Can Have My Picnic in a Patch of Roses

From Far and Wide: A Canadian Citizenship Scrapbook

Each One Special

Pirate Pearl

Dreams Are More Real than Bathtubs

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