Children’s
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Children’s Reviews: When Elephants Listen with Their Feet, Raven, Rabbit, Deer and Benjamin’s Blue Feet
Hello to you all and welcome to a roundup of terrific children’s books all featuring animals! On the review docket today are three titles courtesy of the kind folks at Pajama Press. We’ll be taking a look at: When Elephants Listen with Their Feet: Discover Extraordinary Animal Senses, a non-fiction title from Emmanuelle Grundmann and Read more
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Picture Book Reviews: The Big House and the Little House & Let’s Get Sleepy!
Let’s dive into some lovely picture books! Courtesy of friends at Raincoast Books, I have two wonderful picture books on the review docket today! We’ll be taking a look at: The Big House and the Little House by Yoshi Ueno and Emiko Fujishima and Let’s Get Sleepy! by Tony Cliff. Happy reading, everyone! A tender Read more
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Children’s Reviews: Megabat and the Not-Happy Birthday and First Day of Unicorn School
Hello, everyone! It’s back to reviews with two delightful children’s books here! Up first, thanks to the kind folks at Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada, I’ll be talking about the newest Megabat chapter book, Megabat and the Not-Happy Birthday by Anna Humphrey, illustrated by Kass Reich. Second on the review docket, thanks to author Jess Read more
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Picture Book Reviews: The Barnabus Project by The Fan Brothers & Ray by Marianna Coppo
Courtesy of friends at Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada, I have two wonderful books on the review docket today. I hope you read on for my reviews of The Barnabus Project by The Fan Brothers, as Ray by Marianna Coppo. Happy reading to you all! You may already by familiar with the author-illustrator work of Read more
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Spring Break Game Break!
Thanks to the very lovely folks at Raincoast Books, I have some terrific family-friendly GAMES to share with you all! We’ve been inside and staying close to home for an extended period of time due to COVID-19. Now with Spring Break here for a lot kids and families, you might be on the lookout for Read more
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Great Picture Books! (32)
Hi everyone and welcome to another entry in this series featuring recently read and recommended picture books! I had a slew of library holds come in, and, my goodness, what a treat. The round-up of picture books today is jam-packed with Canadian creators- almost ALL of the authors and illustrators are Canadian, which is pretty Read more
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Children’s Reviews: The Bird in Me Flies & The Bad Chair
Thanks to the very kind folks at Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, I have two fascinating children’s books on review today! We will start with a look at the award-winning The Bird in Me Flies by Sara Lundberg, translated by B.J. Epstein, followed by a review of Dasha Tolstikova’s picture book The Bad Chair. Happy Read more
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Let’s Take A Look At: Graphic Novels for Younger Readers!
My love and appreciation for graphic novels cannot be overstated. Whether children’s fiction/middle grade, non-fiction, young adult, literary, adult fiction- graphic novels are such a boon to the world of reading and to readers. It has been so wonderful to see more and more graphic novels getting published for (what can be loosely termed) ‘younger Read more
ashley spires, ben clanton, beth ferry, bob mcmahon, brian smitty smith, cale atkinson, canadian lit, Children’s, elise gravel, emerging readers, excellent, funny, gergely dudas, graham annable, graphic novels, greg pizzoli, hazel quintanilla, heather ayris burnell, independent readers, jonathan fenske, kevin sherry, melanie watt, mika song, norm feuti, paige braddock, ross burach, series, stephen shaskan, very good, younger readers -
Children’s Book Picks featuring Dinosaurs, How Tos, and No Reading Allowed…!
On a streak of picture book review posts lately! I truly cannot help it as I have been the very lucky recipient of so many terrific picture books that need talking about! Thanks to kind friends at Raincoast Books, I have quite a roster of FIVE awesome titles to talk about today: two books featuring Read more
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For #IReadCanadian Day, take a look at A World of Mindfulness & The Word for Friend!
Hello everyone! Are you ready for I Read Canadian Day? February 17th is I Read Canadian Day: “…a national day of celebration of Canadian books for young people. This is a day dedicated to ‘reading Canadian’ and will empower families, schools, libraries and organizations to host local activities and events within the week”, challenging “the Read more
aidan cassie, aino anti, amélie dubois, andrea blinick, canadian lit, carmen mok, Children’s, emma pedersen, excellent, francois thisdale, gabrielle grimard, i read canadian, i read canadian day, miki sato, mindfulness, pajama press, read alouds, rebecca bender, reviews, scot ritchie, storytime, sue macartney, suzanne del rizzo, tamara campeau, tara anderson, very good
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