Picture Books

If I Wrote a Book About You

By Stephany Aulenback; Denise Holmes (illus.)

If I Wrote a Book About You, by Nova Scotia writer and editor Stephany Aulenback and Chicago-based illustrator Denise Holmes, follows a mother and daughter through a typical day, during which the mother tells the ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Wow Wow and Haw Haw

By George Murray; Michael Pittman (illus.)

The world of children’s fables is a veritable zoo of interspecies moral-making. Newfoundland poet George Murray and painter Michael Pittman join the fray with their first picture book, starring a fox named Wow Wow, a ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ From There to Here

By Laurel Croza; Matt James (illus.)

The young girl from Laurel Croza’s 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award–winning I Know Here has moved across the country and, as she wistfully explains, “It is different here, not the same as there.” In ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Peach Girl

By Raymond Nakamura; Rebecca Bender (illus.)

In his engaging debut, author Raymond Nakamura puts a feminist bent on the Japanese folk tale Momotaro (Peach Boy). In Nakamura’s version, a young girl emerges from a giant peach discovered on the doorstep of ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Cloudwalker

By Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; Roy Henry Vickers (Illus.)

Illustrated by the much-honoured and beloved artist Roy Henry Vickers, Cloudwalker is a visually glorious book. Vickers and oral historian Robert Budd joined forces on last year’s lauded Raven Brings the Light, and with this ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Lion and the Bird

By Marianne Dubuc; Claudia Z. Bedrick (trans.)

From Quebec illustrator and author Marianne Dubuc, The Lion and the Bird is a sweetly sentimental tale about friendship, the passing of time, and letting go. One autumn day, Lion is working in his garden ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

By Christine Baldacchino; Isabelle Malenfant (illus.)

Morris Micklewhite is an imaginative little boy who loves pancakes, painting, singing, and his cat, Moo. His favourite part of school is the dress-up centre – the beautiful tangerine dress he puts on there reminds ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Best Friend Trouble

By Frances Itani; Geneviève Després, illus.

Most of the time, Hanna and Lizzy are best friends, but sometimes they get on each other’s nerves. One day while playing, Lizzy throws a ball over a fence and goads Hanna to do the ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Fish Named Glub

By Dan Bar-el; Josée Bisaillon, illus.

Author Dan Bar-el and illustrator Josée Bisaillon team up to tell an ambitious story about a tiny fish named Glub who has a big impact on the lives of those around him. Glub spends his ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Tweedles Go Electric

By Monica Kulling; Marie Lafrance, illus.

It’s the turn of the 20th century and the Tweedle family is casting off its reputation as “fuddy-duddies” by buying an automobile. Mama and son Francis respond to the prospect with zeal, but daughter Frances’s ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Quill and Quire

If I Wrote a Book About You

Wow Wow and Haw Haw

★ From There to Here

Peach Girl

Cloudwalker

The Lion and the Bird

★ Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

Best Friend Trouble

A Fish Named Glub

The Tweedles Go Electric

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