A Wizard in Love

By Mireille Levert; Marie Lafrance, illus.;

Kids are often thought to be better than adults at dealing with grief, but that doesn’t mean it’s ever easy. Two works by celebrated Montreal author and illustrator Mireille Levert explore the cycle of loss ... Read More »

February 12, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

My Great Big Mamma

By Olivier Ka; Luc Melanson, illus.; Helen Mixter, trans.

In an era in which everyone seems obsessed with diets and fitness schemes, this picture book weighs in on the side of the pleasantly portly. Lebanese-French author Olivier Ka writes from the perspective of a ... Read More »

February 12, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Imaginary Garden

By Andrew Larsen; Irene Luxbacher, illus.

The intense sensory pleasure of a grandparent’s garden is among many people’s earliest memories. And the loss of a garden, like Eden, is one of the most powerful human stories. Nonetheless, grandparents often have to ... Read More »

February 12, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog

By Tim Beiser; Rachel Berman, illus.

Browse the kids’ section at your local bookstore and you might conclude that picture books are entirely populated by animals. Human children do occasionally appear, but the bestselling ones tend to feature mice, squirrels, and ... Read More »

January 20, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Stanley’s Beauty Contest

By Linda Bailey; Bill Slavin, illus.

January 20, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Same Same

By Marthe Jocelyn; Tom Slaughter, illus.

The previous collaborations between Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter were elegant books that broke concepts of size or quantity down to their essence. Spare in text and image almost to the point of being like ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Big and Small, Room for All

By Jo Ellen Bogart; Gillian Newland, illus.

Big and Small, Room for All is the first children’s book Toronto’s Gillian Newland has illustrated. Let’s all hope she decides to stick around. Her gorgeous watercolours add immeasurably to the sense of wonder and ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Oh, Canada!

By Per-Henrik Gürth

Oh, Canada! is the fourth installment in Kids Can’s series of picture books on Canada aimed at early readers, and the second one both written and illustrated by Per-Henrik Gürth (the first two were written ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Boo Hoo Bird

By Jeremy Tankard

Bird suffers a nasty bonk on the head while playing catch with his pal, Raccoon. When he starts to cry, Raccoon takes him to visit all their animal friends, one by one, hoping someone can ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Octonauts & the Frown Fish

By Meomi

The Octonauts & the Frown Fish is the third installment in a series of picture books created by the Vancouver/L.A.-based design duo Meomi, whose trendy Pokemon-meets-Brueghel-meets-Hello Kitty sensibility has made their commercial work a worldwide ... Read More »

December 10, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

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A Wizard in Love

My Great Big Mamma

The Imaginary Garden

Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog

Stanley’s Beauty Contest

Same Same

★ Big and Small, Room for All

Oh, Canada!

★ Boo Hoo Bird

The Octonauts & the Frown Fish

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