Zigzag: Zoems for Zindergarten

Author/illustrator Loris Lesynski presents a collection of poetry specifically for the kindergarten crowd. Zigzag’s 21 rhymes cover familiar aspects of the kindergarten experience, such as “Sit on Your Bottom,” “Paintbrush,” “Paper,” and “Scissors,” but also ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mom and Mum Are Getting Married

By Ken Setterington

Same-sex marriage is the most topical of topics these days, and this friendly picture book by well-known Toronto children’s author and librarian Ken Setterington makes a pleasant contribution to the growing number of books for ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Penguin and the Pea

By Janet Perlman

Janet Perlman’s fairy tale penguins return in a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea. Keeping Andersen’s basic storyline, Perlman, an Academy Award-nominated animation filmmaker and children’s author, adds detail to expand ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Second Is a Hiccup

By Hazel Hutchins, Kady MacDonald Denton, illus.

Albertan author Hazel Hutchins has created an engaging structure for her book about time. The length of verse always approximates the amount of time described. She defines a second in a couple of phrases, a ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Peg and the Yeti

By Kenneth Oppel, Barbara Reid, illus.

The remarkable Kenneth Oppel shows his mastery here of yet another type of children’s writing: the tall tale as picture book. Like his extremely popular Silverwing series, the Peg books (this is the second) feature ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Over in the Meadow

By Jan Thornhill

Over in the meadow in the sand in the sun,/Lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one.” So begins this traditional 19th-century counting rhyme, which introduces young children to 10 animal babies and ... Read More »