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The Christmas Orange

By Don Gillmor, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

For most Christians, Christmas is dominated by tradition: above all by family gatherings complete with the decorated tree, dinner with all the trimmings, and presents. Margaret Laurence’s Christmas story, The Olden Days Coat, first published ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Get Out of Bed!

By Robert Munsch, Alan and Lea Daniel, illus.

The fall season heralds two new books from Robert Munsch, that fixture of Canadian children’s literature. Get Out of Bed!, Munsch’s latest, published by Scholastic, takes the idea of sleeping in to a whole new ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Munschworks

By Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko, illus.

The fall season heralds two new books from Robert Munsch, that fixture of Canadian children’s literature. Get Out of Bed!, Munsch’s latest, published by Scholastic, takes the idea of sleeping in to a whole new ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Girl Who Hated Books

By Manjusha Pawagi, Leanne Franson, illus.

These two new picture books deal with reading in radically different ways. In The Girl Who Hated Books, Meena lives in a house crammed with books of all kinds. Her parents are obsessive readers, and ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Someone Is Reading This Book

By Alice Priestley

These two new picture books deal with reading in radically different ways. In The Girl Who Hated Books, Meena lives in a house crammed with books of all kinds. Her parents are obsessive readers, and ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Midnight in the Mountains

By Julie Lawson, Sheena Lott, illus.

A young girl sits by the fire. This is her first night in the mountain cabin, and although her parents and her brother are asleep, she is excited and wakeful. As the fire burns to ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Gogol’s Coat

By Cary Fagan, Regolo Ricci, illus.

Cary Fagan has taken Nikolai Gogol’s famous Russian (long) short story “The Overcoat,” historically revised it by adding a happy ending, and turned it into a nice little picture storybook for children. The original, obviously ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Melted Star Journey

By Nancy Hundal, Karen Reczuch, illus.

On a cold, wet night Luke and his family say goodbye to friends and begin their long journey home in the car. Sandwiched between his dozing older brother and sister in the back seat, Luke ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Selina and the Shoo-Fly Pie

By Barbara Smucker, Janet Wilson, illus., quilts by Lucy Anne Holliday

It has been a year since Selina and her family moved from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada to escape the effects of the American Civil War. Selina is an inch taller and her family has settled ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

One Is Canada

By Maxine Trottier, Bill Slavin, illus.

The last thing the world really needs is a new counting book. The only reasonable justification for yet another one is a concept so fresh and original that it adds innovative perspective or rare beauty ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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