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,
On occasion, I have to wonder if perhaps my grandmother and great-aunts didn't have a point. How many times did they instruct me that I should not, so often, have my nose in a book. Because sometimes I really wonder how I missed something huge. Like, for instance, Robert Lepage's
If this were the first Munro story that you read, by the time you reached the end of "1. Anonymous Letters", you might be shaking your head, for that segment seems to just stop. If you've been reading Munro stories for awhile, however, you'll be settling your chin in your
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
