Red Is Best

Author

Helaine Becker

A Porcupine in a Pine Tree is basically and simply a Canadian version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, humorous, delightfully Canuck, with caribous, moose, beavers and the like taking the place of the more familiar denizens of partridges, calling birds, leaping lords etc. (nothing spectacular about...

Author	Dennis Lee
ISBN	1552633381

Dennis Lee won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1972 for his poetic meditation on Canadian identity in Civil Elegies, but he made perhaps his most enduring contribution to Canadian nationalism two years later with a short collection of near-nonsense rhymes written for a much younger set....

Author	Robert Munsch
ISBN	0920303129

A childhood favourite of mine... it's time to pass it along to Neo. Mortimer is quite the child. When asked to remain quiet at bedtime, young Mortimer begins to sing at the top of his lungs. Visits from his father, massive sibling group, and the police seem not to stop this singing sensation from pushing...

Author	Allen Morgan
ISBN	0590406329

Sadie and the Snowman by Allen Morgan is a sweet tale of a young girl and he beloved snowman. Sadie loves the snow and made a snowman that she is absolutely so in love with but as the winter went on animals ate parts of the snowman and the heat began to melt her snowman. Sadie was deeply saddened and decided to...

Author	Marie-Louise Gay
ISBN	0888994044

Booklist November 1, 2000 (Vol. 97, No. 5)

Ages 3-6. Sam, who took his first trip to the ocean in Gay's Stella, Star of the Sea(1999), now discovers the wonders of snow. As in the previous picture book, Sam approaches the unknown with caution, while his boisterous big sister, Stella, encourages...

Author	Phoebe Gilman
ISBN	1895565820

I remember this book! In fact I remember that I adored this book, but in the years between I had forgotten it completely until a chance mention reminded me again. Since I work in a library I ran to the shelves, grabbed it and read it again.

This book is charming and whimsical and I would read it to every...

Author	Mick Inkpen
ISBN	0316418862

The Blue Balloon – by Mick Inkpen

Synopsis:

This short story book features a young boy and his dog called Kipper. Kipper and his owner embark on an adventure when they find a soggy blue balloon, which challenges their preconceptions of how ordinary balloons should behave. The mysterious...