Picture Books

Tales from Parc la Fontaine

The work of Roslyn Schwartz, the Montreal-based creator of the Mole Sisters, has been praised for the way it incorporates large ideas into small vignettes for the preschool crowd. The first book in her new ... Read More »

January 8, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Beyond the Northern Lights

By Lynn Blaikie

Gallery owners have described Yukon artist Lynn Blaikie’s batik work as “unique,” “exuberant,” and “joyous,” words that apply equally well to both the text and illustrations of her first picture book.Beyond the Northern Lights, inspired ... Read More »

January 8, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Fox Walked Alone

By Barbara Reid

Picture book illustration can, at its finest, transport you right into the heart of a story’s emotion and momentum. How anyone can achieve that transmogrification with the lumpish medium of Plasticine is an artistic mystery. ... Read More »

December 4, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Birdman

By Veronika Martenova Charles; Annouchka Gravel Galouchko & Stéphan Daigle

The first thing that must be said about The Birdman is that the illustrations, by Montrealers Annouchka Gravel Galouchko and her partner, Stéphan Daigle, are gorgeous. With intricate Gustav Klimt-style patterns filling every brilliantly coloured ... Read More »

October 2, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Christmas Eve Magic

By Lucie Papineau; Stéphane Poulin, illus.

It’s hard to be a Scrooge about a new Christmas book for children, but this collaboration between veteran children’s writer Lucie Papineau and two-time Governor General’s Award-winning illustrator Stéphane Poulin seems to miss its mark. ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Huron Carol

By Jean de Brebeuf; Jesse Edgar Middleton, trans.; Ian Wallace, illus.

The Huron Carol’s English lyrics by Jesse Edgar Middleton are an early 20th-century adaptation of a Huron hymn written circa 1641 by Father Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary who lived with the Wendat (Huron) ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ What Are You Doing, Sam?

By Marie-Louise Gay

Rarely does a children’s book suit its intended audience perfectly. The vocabulary may aim too high or low, or adult preoccupations may creep into what is supposed to be a child’s sphere of thought. But ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ “I Did It Because…”: How a Poem Happens

By Loris Lesynski; Michael Martchenko, illus.

It’s one of those certainties like death or taxes: after an author reading, someone in the audience will invariably ask, “Where do you get your ideas?” Without saying where, exactly, children’s poet Loris Lesynski ponders ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ I Did It Because…How a Poem Happens

By Loris Lesynski; Michael Martchenko, illus.

July 17, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Ancient Thunder

By Leo Yerxa

It has taken time, but he has done it again. Leo Yerxa, Ojibwe artist-author of the multi-award-winning Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall (1993), has produced another surefire prize contender with this tribute to the ... Read More »

June 19, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Tales from Parc la Fontaine

★ Beyond the Northern Lights

★ Fox Walked Alone

★ The Birdman

Christmas Eve Magic

The Huron Carol

★ What Are You Doing, Sam?

★ “I Did It Because…”: How a Poem Happens

★ I Did It Because…How a Poem Happens

★ Ancient Thunder

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