Reviews

The World of Penguins

Thanks to the 2006 movie "Happy Feet," many children probably have penguins on the brain. With Evelyne Daigle's ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Goodnight, Sweet Pig

In Linda Bailey's Goodnight, Sweet Pig (Kids Can Press), little pig number one can't sleep due to the ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Oliver Has Something to Say!

Oliver Has Something to Say! (Lobster Press) by Pamela Edwards, is about a four-year-old boy who can't get ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Lily and the Mixed-Up Letters

Deborah Hodge's Lily and the Mixed-Up Letters (Tundra Books) is about a second grader whose reading ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend

Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend (Kids Can Press) is Mélanie Watt's second book about the neurotic rodent ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Black Velvet Elvis

The poems in Black Velvet Elvis surprise twice. First by their distinctiveness, then by how they leave you ...

By Carmine Starnino

Ladonian Magnitudes

Is there a person named Bryan Sentes? The author's note in Ladonian Magnitudes asserts his reality as a ...

By Bert Almon

Ropewalk

The opening sequence of Angela Carr's Ropewalk, "The Louise Labé Poems," turns on a real person (maybe), ...

By Bert Almon