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Author: Deborah Blumenthal
Illustrator: Mary GrandPre
Published: 2007 Pelican Publishing Company (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1589804910 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Warmth, humour and fond remembrance waft through this beautifully worded and evocatively illustrated exploration of a young girl’s family tree — and the traits, trinkets and togetherness that sustain it.
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Author: Shirin Yim Bridges
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall (on JOMB)
Published: 2002 Chronicle Books (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0811834905 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
The hush of dependable peaches and greens gently gives way to a crescendo of red in this thoughtfully unfolding, true story of a young girl with a dream — and the patient, respectful cracking of cultural constraints that made her dream come true.
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Author: Natasha Wing
Illustrator: Sylvie Kantorovitz
Published: 2007 Harcourt (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0152057757 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Featuring playful, childlike drawings, imaginary adventure and the familiar ping-pong interaction of every stall tactic in the book, this 2007 Cybils Award Finalist turns the tables on the theatrical endurance test we call “bedtime”.
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Be sure to check out the freshly announced list of Fiction Picture Book Finalists for The 2007 Cybils Awards here. And stay tuned — the finalists in the Graphic Novels, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Non-Fiction MG/YA and Young Adult Novels categories of The 2007 Cybils Awards will be announced in three short days!
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Author: Jon Scieszka
Illustrator: Lane Smith
Published: 2004 Penguin Young Reader (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0670062693 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Mother Goose, Longfellow and Edgar Allen Poe get a jolt of unshakable Scieszkan nonsense in this addictive collection of twisted belt-it-out classics.
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Check out 7-Imp’s interview with the amazing Jon Scieszka here.
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Author: Grace Lin
Illustrator: Grace Lin
Published: 2007 Albert Whitman & Co. (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0807569224 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Dramatic, stylized folk art, carefully worded text and a cleverly crafted story-within-a-story format combine to create an engaging story time snapshot that vividly illustrates the unwavering strength of parental devotion — and the quiet power of children’s books.
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Author: Michelle Knudsen
Illustrator: Kevin Hawkes (on JOMB)
Published: 2006 Candlewick Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0763622621 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
We want them to follow the rules. We want them to think for themselves. This softly sweet and thoroughly entertaining book may help them understand why.
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For more information on Universal Truths, check out CBC radio journalist and father of Canadian podcasting Tod Maffin’s eBook From Idea To Air — or, better yet, his not-to-be-missed From Idea To Air presentation.
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Author: Melissa Sweet
Illustrator: Melissa Sweet
Published: 2005 Houghton Mifflin (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0618387943 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Combine twenty-six meaty new words, a sprinkling of fairy tale characters, one talented young artist, forty pages of gorgeous watercolours and an irresistably spunky dog and “voila!” an exciting new rendition of the Red Riding Hood theme. Bones optional.
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Author: Oliver Jeffers
Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
Published: 2006 Harpercollins
ISBN: 0007182317 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Brilliantly built upon book covers and maps, this irreverent introduction to reading is a book kids can get their teeth into.
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It’s interesting to hear the reasoning behind not buying this book sooner. You always hear how the cover can be such an important hook. I wonder if Lane Smith designed the cover or if it was an in-house designer at Penguin.
Andy,
Ya, I guess I’m likely in the minority about the cover. The book has been a massively huge success and, based on the past work of Lane and Jon alone I should have bought it. Maybe the fact that both my degrees are in Math and that I work in high tech gives me that pavlovian reflex to not pick up anything that looks slightly textbookish.
I’m so glad I did finally buy it because it is So SO SO good and such a huge hit with the family.
Incidentally, the look of the cover matters even less now that the book has been trucked back & forth to so many different locations by our addicted-to-it daughters — it’s bent and water ruffled and looking very very loved!