Picture Books

La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs

La Primera is an attractive pairing of a song by Canadian folk-music legend Ian Tyson and a set of paintings by Saskatchewan-born Adeline Halvorson. Following the history of mustangs from 1493, when the first such ... Read More »

April 15, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Lord of the Sky

By Linda Zeman-Spaleny; Ludmila Zeman, illus.

This book is a family project that began life as a 1991 animated short film. First-time author Linda Zeman-Spaleny is the daughter of Ludmila Zeman and Eugen Spaleny, the directors, scriptwriters, and animators of the ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Farley Follows His Nose

By Lynn Johnston and Beth Cruikshank; Lynn Johnston, illus.

When we last saw Farley, the scruffily loveable and loveably scruffy sheepdog from Lynn Johnston’s beloved strip For Better or For Worse, he was, well, dead, having snuffed it while rescuing the Patterson family’s youngest ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dance Baby Dance

By Andrea Spalding

As its title suggests, the text of this board book for the very young is about dancing. In it, Baby is urged to dance – with sister, Teddy, friends, the sun and the moon, in ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hurry Up, Nicholas!

By Gilles Tibo; Bruno St-Aubin, illus.; Petra Johansonn, trans.

The powerhouse Quebec-based duo of writer Gilles Tibo and illustrator Bruno St-Aubin team up here for the third in their Nicholas series, aimed at the early elementary set. Previously, in Too Many Books!, Nicholas had ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Getting There

By Marla Stewart Konrad

Getting There and Mom and Me are the first two entries in the World Vision Early Reader series. (Grand and I Like to Play are promised.) Both are filled with full-colour images from photographers around ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Mom and Me

By Marla Stewart Konrad

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Bears We Know

By Brenda Silsbe; Vlasta van Kampen, illus.

The Bears We Know was originally published in 1989 as an Annikin, a tiny-format picture book designed for small pockets. It has now been reissued in a larger format, fleshed out with new illustrations. The ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

When I Visit the Farm

By Crystal Beshara

Crystal Beshara is first and foremost a painter, so it’s not surprising that it is the artwork in this book that shines. As with an impressionist painting, Beshara’s softly coloured illustrations sometimes have the effect ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Penelope and the Preposterous Birthday Party

By Sheri Radford; Christine Tripp, illus.

This third Penelope book by author-illustrator duo Sheri Radford and Christine Tripp catches up with the exuberant and capricious girl on the day of her birthday party. All three Penelope titles involve a familiar childhood ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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