Richard Was a Picker

At first, a story about a character entangled in a ball of green snot may seem cringe-worthy. But in the hands of Carolyn Beck and Ben Hodson, it’s the basis for an original, funny, gooey, ... Read More »

December 6, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Hunger Journeys

By Maggie de Vries

Hunger journeys were often made by the starving residents of Amsterdam into the countryside to search for food in the closing months of the Second World War. The hunger journey in Vancouver author Maggie de ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Kitten’s Autumn

By Eugenie Fernandes

Author-illustrator Eugenie Fernandes uses clay, acrylic paint, and mixed-media collage to create a visual feast in her second seasonal tale (following Kitten’s Spring) featuring a curious calico cat. Quality autumnal picture books that deal with ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ The Cat’s Pajamas

By Wallace Edwards

There are any number of kids’ books that are only ostensibly for kids, that in their tone or language or execution reveal themselves to be aimed at the kind of kid idealized by some adults, ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Counting on Snow

By Maxwell Newhouse

There is no escaping the fact that all counting books have an element of didacticism. But folk artist Maxwell Newhouse (The House That Max Built) makes the predictable task of getting from 10 to one ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

One Hockey Night

By David Ward; Brian Deines, illus.

With One Hockey Night, David Ward and Brian Deines offer up a sequel to The Hockey Tree, which won a Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice award in 2007. In the new book, hockey-loving siblings Owen and ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Together Forever

By Per-Henrik Gürth

In 2009’s When Wishes Come True, Little Bear yearned to be anything other than a polar bear cub living on barren, white stretches of Arctic ice with Mother Bear. He soon learned, however, that he ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Hockey Opposites

By Per-Henrik Gürth

Per-Henrik Gürth’s Hockey Opposites is a delightfully cute and playful treatment of hockey for early readers. The book tells the story of a match between two teams made up of typical Gürthian critters such as ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!

By Jody Nyasha Warner; Richard Rudnicki, illus.

One day in 1946, hair salon owner Viola Desmond’s car broke down in the town of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. To pass the time while it was being fixed, she went to the movies, only ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Stanley’s Little Sister

By Linda Bailey; Bill Slavin, illus

Stanley’s back, but in this, the latest in the popular series with the delightfully comic dog’s-eye view of the world, the boisterous canine has to deal with trouble he didn’t cause. Stanley’s trouble takes the ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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