February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Budding bibliophiles will find much to enjoy in two new picture books that celebrate the joys of reading. These love songs to literacy each have their own stylish flair, from a bubbly let’s-get-this-party-started jig to ... Read More »
If ever there was a book that could calm a child and draw her into meditative contemplation (perhaps right before bed?), The White Cat and the Monk is it. Guelph, Ontario–based author Jo Ellen Bogart ... Read More »
February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Dogs and picture books might be the most ideal pairing of subject and artistic form. Even film cannot fully capture the twitch of an eyebrow, the slow thump of a tail that crescendos to pure ... Read More »
January 25, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Dogs and picture books might be the most ideal pairing of subject and artistic form. Even film cannot fully capture the twitch of an eyebrow, the slow thump of a tail that crescendos to pure ... Read More »
January 25, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
In this celebration of the winds of the world, poet Barbara Nickel embeds a subtle message of global unity and peace. A young boy asks the wind where it lives and the wind answers by ... Read More »
January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Parents of small children know that sometimes they seem to move as slowly as sloths, and author Jan Thornhill builds on this truism in her latest book. Three-toed sloth Kyle may only have to go ... Read More »
January 6, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Toronto illustrator Gracia Lam lends her artistic talent to American author Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s gorgeous and whimsical picture book, which uses the first three letters of the alphabet as the jumping-off point for a series ... Read More »
January 6, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Dogs and picture books might be the most ideal pairing of subject and artistic form. Even film cannot fully capture the twitch of an eyebrow, the slow thump of a tail that crescendos to pure ... Read More »
January 6, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
Winnie is mad for monsters. She can’t resist the peculiar charms of long-footed Plurps with massive underbites, or sharply dressed, moustachioed Zups. Yearning for a beastly pet of her own, the youngster coyly bats her ... Read More »
January 6, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books
We first met Theodora (Theo) and her grandfather, Poppa, in Andrew Larsen and Irene Luxbacher’s 2009 collaboration, The Imaginary Garden. Their follow-up is a sweet tale that shows even the shortest of trips is full ... Read More »
January 4, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books