★ Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale

My mental image of Florence Nightingale while I was growing up resembled that of an angelic Superwoman, flitting about in a long skirt and cape while handsome male patients gazed up at her adoringly. Biographer ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

Jason’s New Dugout Canoe

By Joe Barber-Starkey, Paul Montpellier, illus.

Writer Joe Barber-Starkey and illustrator Paul Montpellier team up to create a sequel to their first book, Jason and the Sea Otter. In this new story, Jason, a young Nootka boy, wakes to the sounds ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Enough

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Michael Martchenko, illus.

Even the most abundant wheat harvest provides a small Ukrainian farm community with just bare sustenance. So when Soviet soldiers arrive in little Marusia’s village, demanding that all the farmers hand over their entire crop, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Night School

By Loris Lesynski

Night owl Eddie tries his mother’s patience with his aversion to bedtime, prompting him to search for a place where his insomnia is understood. He finds it at Night School and, accompanied by other local ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Laura Secord’s Brave Walk

By Connie Brummel Crook, June Lawrason, illus.

Recent news articles suggest that children are growing up ignorant of their country’s history. One way of counteracting this is to introduce them early to stories that make the past seem exciting and intriguing. Picture ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Laura: A Childhood Tale of Laura Secord

By Maxine Trottier, Karen Reczuch, illus.

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Eh? to Zed: A Canadian Abecedarium

By Kevin Major, Alan Daniel, illus.

To introduce another alphabet book into the world is a risky venture, given the apparent glut of these books on the market and the centuries’ worth of precedents in our libraries. Happily, this creative new ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Tall in the Saddle

By Anne Carter, David McPhail, illus.

Prolific children’s writer and illustrator David McPhail (he’s created more than 70 books) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has teamed up with first-time picture book author Anne Carter of Toronto to spin a rollicking cowboy fantasy. ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Beowulf

By Welwyn Wilton Katz, Laszlo Gal, illus.

If your only experience of Beowulf has been a brief excerpt at the beginning of a survey course in English literature, then you may have given (as I did) short shrift to this West Saxon ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Rain, Rain

By Maryann Kovalski

Wouldn’t we all like a magic charm to drive away the rain when it arrives on precisely the wrong day? Maryann Kovalski, a well-known Canadian author/illustrator, uses the old folk rhyme “Rain, rain, go away” ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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