CBC Recommended Reading List

Spring 2008. When CBC Radio discusses Kids books, we listen. Here are the recent picks.



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Blue Hippopotamus - children's hardcover
By Phoebe Gilman - $19.99 - add to cart
 

Clementine - children's paperback
By Sara Pennypacker - $5.75 - add to cart

Grade 2-4–Clementine, a not-so-common third grader, knows her way around the principal's office as well as she does the art-supply closet. Daily rituals take on a different view when seen from her ...

 

Dear Sylvia - children's paperback
By Alan Cumyn - $12.95 - add to cart
 

Into The Dark - young adult softcover
By Peter Abrahams - $15.99 - add to cart
 

Ready for Autumn - Children's Board Book
By Marthe Jocelyn - $8.99 - add to cart

What am I going to wear? The question that diverts us all is first presented in the toddler years when the mastery of getting dressed is a triumph and opinions about clothing are emphatic. These...

 

Ready For Spring - Children's Board Book
By Marthe Jocelyn - $8.99 - add to cart

What am I going to wear? The question that diverts us all is first presented in the toddler years when the mastery of getting dressed is a triumph and opinions about clothing are emphatic. These...

 

Ready For Summer - Children's Board Book
By Marthe Jocelyn - $8.99 - add to cart

What am I going to wear? The question that diverts us all is first presented in the toddler years when the mastery of getting dressed is a triumph and opinions about clothing are emphatic. These...

 

Ready For Winter - Children's Board Book
By Marthe Jocelyn - $8.99 - add to cart

What am I going to wear? The question that diverts us all is first presented in the toddler years when the mastery of getting dressed is a triumph and opinions about clothing are emphatic. These...

 

Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns - children's paperback
By Elizabeth Macleod - $14.95 - add to cart

What would you do for absolute power? For many monarchs throughout history, it was a question that ruled their lives. Step into the world of palatial intrigue, where holding the throne means evadi...

 

Skim - hardcover
By Mariko Tamaki - $18.95 - add to cart

This auspicious graphic novel debut by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki tells the story of "Skim," aka Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a goth girl in an all-girls school in Toronto, circa the early '90s. ...

 

Take action!: A guide to active citizenship - young adult softcover
By Craig Kielburger - $31.95 - add to cart

Make a difference in your hometown and around the world! Inspired by the vision, spirit, and activities of thousands of kids working to improve the lives of others, Take Action! shows how you, t...

 

The True Meaning of Smekday - children's hardcover
By Adam Rex - $19.75 - add to cart
 

The Underneath - children's hardcover
By Kathi Appelt - $19.99 - add to cart

A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, ...

 

A Whole Lot of Wayne - children's paperback
By David Mcrobbie - $14.95 - add to cart

Wayne has a vivid imagination, an optimistic approach to life, and a best friend named Squocka. On the first day of school, he gets a "T" for troublemaker marked next to his name because bully Kevi...

 

Yellow Moon, Apple Moon - children's hardcover
By Pamela Porter - $17.95 - add to cart

In this delightful bedtime rhyme a young child bids good night to the moon, recalling all the familiar things surrounding her, from her pillow, her book, and her kitten to the swing outside, the ro...

 

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