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What’s Left Us

The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Load ’em Up Trucks

By Debora Pearson, Chum McLeod, illus.

Young children’s – more accurately, young boys’ – fascination with big machinery, cars, trucks, and “things that go” is well known in children’s book publishing, and Annick has launched a new series to cater to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

All the Seas of the World

By Gayla Reid

With All the Seas of the World, award-winning short-story writer Gayla Reid makes a confident and compelling, affecting and strong-minded entry into long fiction. And she does it like a champion hurdler, breezing over a ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Prairie Summer

By Nancy Hundal, Brian Deines, illus.

Vancouver writer and teacher-librarian Nancy Hundal’s latest poetic picture book lovingly follows two city boys on a summer visit with their prairie cousins. A sensuous text captures the sounds, smells, and even mosquito bites of ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pippin Takes a Bath

By K. V. Johansen, Bernice Lum, illus.

Pippin is a big, goofy yellow dog with a curly black tail who doesn’t like baths. Her attempts to escape from the tub, galloping off into the forest, mean that her loving owner, Mabel, in ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Bye-Bye Pie

By Sharon Jennings, Ruth Ohi, illus.

When Grandma announces she is going to Greenland for a year-long visit, Joey’s family plans a surprise going-away party for her. Joey and his little brother, Alfie, make presents, and Joey helps Mom bake Grandma’s ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Who Wants Rocks?

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Langer Krykorka, illus.

Michael Kusugak successfully takes a new direction in his seventh picture book collaboration with illustrator Vladyana Langer Krykorka. In their first six books, this award-winning team focused on eastern Arctic stories. This one moves to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

I Know an Old Laddie…

By Jean Little, Rose Cowles, illus.

Award-winning author Jean Little borrows her plot from I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. For the few who haven’t heard the original story sung, chanted, or read, it’s about an old lady ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Courage My Love

By Sarah Dearing

You really want to like Philippa, the heroine of Sarah Dearing’s new novel,Courage My Love. Feeling like “such a wife,” she slips away from her pastel condo and her yuppie weasel husband, and immerses herself ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Mole Sisters and the Rainy Day

By Roslyn Schwartz

This new series for very young children seems deliberately designed to evoke the early classics of children’s literature with their charming animal characters. The mole sisters are a delightful pair whose optimism brightens up even ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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What’s Left Us

Load ’em Up Trucks

All the Seas of the World

Prairie Summer

Pippin Takes a Bath

★ The Bye-Bye Pie

Who Wants Rocks?

I Know an Old Laddie…

Courage My Love

The Mole Sisters and the Rainy Day

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