Kisses Kisses Baby-O!

Sheree Fitch, winner of the 1998 Vicky Metcalf award for a body of work that has inspired Canadian children, has tried her hand at poetry, picture books, non-fiction, novels, and plays for various ages. Now ... Read More »

March 13, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Goose Girl

By Joe and Matrine McLellan; Rhian Brynjolson, illus.

With this new offering, the authors of Pemmican’s successful Nanabosho series of picture books maintain their commitment to aboriginal storytelling but depart from that series and its customary story-within-a-story form. Goose Girl introduces Marie, a ... Read More »

March 13, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Master’s Apprentice

By Rick Jacobson; Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson, illus.

When Marco is accepted as a junior apprentice to young Michelangelo Buonarroti, he is excited and fearful. His father, a chemist, has trained him to mix his secret formulas for artists’ colours, but Marco knows ... Read More »

March 12, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming

By Jean Davies Okimoto; Jeremiah Trammell, illus.

Winston of Churchill is a brilliant book. Great fun to read and look at, it painlessly teaches children a number of important facts. With captivating wit, author Jean Davies Okimoto explores global warming, Manitoba geography, ... Read More »

March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Rosie and Buttercup

By Chieri Uegaki; Stephane Jorisch, illus.

At first, Rosie is very taken with her new little sister, Buttercup. But before long, she begins to resent Buttercup’s messy intrusion into her life and tries to give her away. So begins this unexceptional ... Read More »

March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Mattland

By Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert; Dusan Petricic, illus.

What can a kid do when he’s moved over and over again, and the place he’s moved to now is the very worst of all? Matt is so angry he could throw a stick, but ... Read More »

March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Footwork: The Story of Fred and Adele Astaire

By Roxane Orgill; Stéphane Jorisch, illus.

Before Fred and Ginger, there was Fred and his sister Adele. From the respective ages of five and seven, the young Astaires danced together for more than 20 years. Orgill and Jorisch tell the true ... Read More »

January 16, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Down at the Sea Hotel

By Greg Brown; Mireille Levert, illus.

A dot-eyed pig in red tartan Bermuda shorts and suspenders is our guide through the surreal world of Down at the Sea Hotel, a song by Greg Brown that has morphed into a picture book ... Read More »

January 16, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Ben’s Bunny Trouble

By Daniel Wakeman; Dirk van Stralen, illus.

Children do not consider themselves cute. Of course, adults occasionally find them so, and only the most austere grown-up is immune from the awww moment. But that moment is no time to start writing a ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Yum! Yum!! Delicious Nursery Rhymes

By Joanne Fitzgerald

Joanne Fitzgerald illustrated the GG-winning Doctor Kiss Says Yes, and The Little Rooster and the Diamond Button, winner of a Mr. Christie’s Book Award. In Yum! Yum!!, she creates a tasty marriage of ingeniously presented ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Kisses Kisses Baby-O!

Goose Girl

★ The Master’s Apprentice

★ Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming

Rosie and Buttercup

★ Mattland

Footwork: The Story of Fred and Adele Astaire

Down at the Sea Hotel

Ben’s Bunny Trouble

Yum! Yum!! Delicious Nursery Rhymes

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