A Trip with Grandma

Ruth Ohi’s latest picture book, her third to feature guinea pig characters, is a charming story about a young child’s first overnight trip without his parents. Though little Sprout likes seeing new places and loves ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Polar Bear, Arctic Hare: Poems of the Frozen North

By Eileen Spinelli; Eugenie Fernandes, illus.;

By the time you read this review, another couple of hundred kilometres of age-old ice will have broken off the Arctic shelf and tumbled into the sea. Hunters in Pangnirtung, in the area where Arctic ... Read More »

April 30, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Veggies Smeggies

By Sean Moore

Vancouver animator Sean Moore’s second picture book, Veggies Smeggies, revolves around a little boy who monotonously explains to the conniving, vegetable-wielding adults around him why he loathes the green stuff. Only his grandma, with the ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Wanda and the Frogs

By Barbara Azore; Georgia Graham, illus.

In Wanda and the Frogs – the second of what readers can only hope will be a continuing picture book series – the writer/illustrator team of Barbara Azore and Georgia Graham resurrect the vivacious heroine ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Boat in the Tree

By Tim Wynne-Jones; John Shelley, illus.

The Boat in the Tree, like most picture books, functions on at least two levels. The overt story, told by a young boy, is seemingly straightforward: “The day Mom and Dad went to pick up ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

In My Backyard

By Margriet Ruurs; Ron Broda, illus.

Readers of In My Backyard will find themselves in a garden that is all the more magical for its realistic portrayal. Ron Broda’s remarkable paper sculptures are hyper-real, delicate, and enchanting rather than computer-animation-cold. The ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr

By Nicolas Debon

The boom in graphic novels for the young is easily understood. Ever since Art Spiegelman’s stunning Maus, published in 1986, expanded the genre to include weighty themes, artists have realized the elastic potential of the ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Aunts Come Marching

By Bill Richardson; Cynthia Nugent, illus.

How many kids have livened up a rainy afternoon or a long car trip by singing the innumerable verses of “The Ants Came Marching”? And how often have parents, teachers, or camp leaders been driven ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Grumpy Bird

By Jeremy Tankard

He was too grumpy to eat. He was too grumpy to play. In fact, he was too grumpy to fly. ‘Looks like I’m walking today,’ said Bird.” And yet, Grumpy Bird, written and illustrated by ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

One Winter Night

By Jennifer Lloyd; Lynn Ray, illus.

A rare thing it is to find a holiday offering for children untethered to the licensed-character marketing beast. Rarer still to find a book that gives shape to the sensibility of a Canadian Christmas without ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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