This month, our picture book panel tackles a colourful trio of books from Jim Averbeck, the Fan Brothers and Jillian Tamaki. We visit a family trapline with David A. Robertson, go up against an evil astrologer with Mahtab Narsimhan and experience life in a refugee camp with Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed.
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This month in children’s books, we profile Jerry Craft, Pam Munoz Ryan and an Italian cyclist who saved 800 Jews during WWII…all while riding his bicycle.
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Welcome to the February edition of Bookcase Bizarro! I’d been planning to profile middle grade graphic novelist, Jerry Craft, for Black History Month. A member of our regular picture book panel read Craft’s New Kid and I wanted to include her in the review but we weren’t able to ‘meet’ before the February edition of
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Welcome to the January edition of Bookcase Bizarro! This month, we’re back with board books by Richard Van Camp and Julia Donaldson: one pick for the very young and another for older readers. Our regular picture book column has expanded to three reviewers, so we now feature a children’s writer, literacy tutor and early childhood
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Welcome to the December edition of Bookcase Bizarro! This month, we profile a couple of National Geographic Kids books, as well as board books by Ojibway artist Joseph Adair and author/illustrator Taro Gomi. We’re back with our regular picture book and middle grade spotlights, as well as the Doug and Sheila Browne Books to Grow
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