Picture Books

Who Wants Rocks?

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Langer Krykorka, illus.

Michael Kusugak successfully takes a new direction in his seventh picture book collaboration with illustrator Vladyana Langer Krykorka. In their first six books, this award-winning team focused on eastern Arctic stories. This one moves to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

I Know an Old Laddie…

By Jean Little, Rose Cowles, illus.

Award-winning author Jean Little borrows her plot from I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. For the few who haven’t heard the original story sung, chanted, or read, it’s about an old lady ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Mole Sisters and the Piece of Moss

By Roslyn Schwartz

This new series for very young children seems deliberately designed to evoke the early classics of children’s literature with their charming animal characters. The mole sisters are a delightful pair whose optimism brightens up even ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Mole Sisters and the Rainy Day

By Roslyn Schwartz

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Me and Mr. Mah

By Andrea Spalding, Janet Wilson, illus.

British Columbia author Andrea Spalding’s latest is a sensitive tale about gardens, growing sunflowers, the importance of memories, and the rewards of friendship.The narrator, Ian, is a prairie boy who, when his parents separate, moves ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Bear on the Train

By Julie Lawson, Brian Deines, illus.

In Bear On the Train, a hungry bear follows the smell of grain right into a railway car. By the time the train pulls out, the bear is ready to hibernate and sleeps through the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Dreamstones

By Maxine Trottier, Stella East, illus.

Inukshuks – those strange human-like figures of piled rocks that are such a distinctive emblem of the Canadian Arctic – provide a centre for Maxine Trottier’s haunting story of a young boy lost in the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Mallory and the Power Boy

By Pete Marlowe, Cindy Revell, illus.

Pete Marlowe’s new picture book tells the fanciful tale of what happens when the power goes out one night at a little girl’s home. Soon after her parents tuck her into bed for the night, ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Didi and Daddy on the Promenade

By Marilyn Singer, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Didi is a hyperkinetic toddler with a blonde ponytail, round tummy, and an infectious enthusiasm for her Sunday morning walks with her Dad (no Mom in evidence) on Brooklyn’s riverside Promenade. Marie-Louise Gay’s breezy illustrations ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Magic Mustache

By Gary Barwin, Stéphane Jorisch, illus.

In his playful second book for children, poet Gary Barwin riffs on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Here, a nose and his parents (two old eyes) are desperately poor, and a pair ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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