As if it wasn't enough to take The Ramayana and present it in images, this volume retells the ancient epic through the eyes of a woman. This is Sita's Ramayana. House of Anansi, 2011 Artwork by Moyna Chitrakar The original Sanskrit text is attributed to the poet Valmiki, and it is
Nearly two weeks ago, author Susan Vande Griek and illustrator Karen Reczuch took home the $10,000 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction for Loon. This post's title comes from the jury's description of the book, and the cover alone, with its rich, tapestry-like image, declares that this bird
Pamela Porter's backlist landed all-of-a-piece on my TBR with I'll Be Watching. Yellow Moon, Apple Moon is aimed at the earliest readers. It provides a lovely transition-from-board-books option. [Next on my Pamela Porter list, if you're curious, arranged in order of readers' ages: Sky (prose, 8-12) and The Crazy Man (free verse,
When life and story intersect: that's where this story takes place. (And isn't that the best place ever to set a story?) Groundwood - House of Anansi, 2012 But, okay, in the beginning, when readers step aboard That Night's Train, they are actually in a railway carriage. "The train
You could read this book because it has won a tonne of awards. (It won the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature (Text), the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award.) You could read it because Paul Yee has a solid
