{"id":1095,"date":"2007-11-18T18:52:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T23:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/canadian-childrens-book-week\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T23:59:11","slug":"canadian-childrens-book-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/canadian-childrens-book-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Children’s Book Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know it’s Canadian Children’s Book Week?
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I was looking for information about kids books for something meme-ish, and came across this list of 100 Best Canadian Books for Children<\/a>, courtesy of the Toronto Public Library, but I have to admit that I’ve only read about ten or so of the books. Some of our favourites made the list, including Paulette Bourgeouis’ Franklin <\/a><\/em>stories, Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie<\/a><\/em>, and Mordechai Richler’s Jacob Two-two Meets the Hooded Fang<\/a><\/em>. (I read this when I was a kid, but haven’t thought of reading it to the boys yet. Hmmm. Note to self: would make a good Christmas gift!) And of course, we are Robert Munsch<\/a> fans around here, particularly Mortimer<\/em><\/a>, The Mud Puddle<\/em><\/a>, I Have to Go<\/em><\/a>, and Thomas’ Snowsuit<\/em><\/a> — anything but Love You Forever<\/em><\/a>, perhaps the most morbid and disturbing kids’ book ever written. <\/p>\n

But in one hundred books, they didn’t find room for some of our very favourites. The boys adore Allen Morgan’s Matthew’s Midnight Adventures<\/a> series, and they’re the kind of clever and funny books that I don’t mind reading over and over again. We got a copy of Barbara Reid’s Read Me A Book<\/a><\/em> from First Words program when Simon was born, and we were instant fans, and Kerry <\/a>gave the boys a copy of Reid’s The Subway Mouse<\/a><\/em>. Also thanks to Kerry, we love Linda Bailey’s Stanley’s Party<\/a><\/em>, a charming and funny story about a dog’s adventures when his people leave the house.<\/p>\n

But truly, how could any list of Canadian kids’ lit overlook Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater<\/em><\/a>? It’s a national treasure! (Edited to add<\/strong>: a bit of a tangent, but if you haven’t seen it, you must click through and watch the short film based on The Sweater<\/a>, courtesy of the NFB.)<\/em><\/p>\n

So, it’s the gift-giving season, and what makes a better gift than books? Fill up our reading list – what are your favourite kids’ books? Bonus points if they’re Canadian! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know it’s Canadian Children’s Book Week? I was looking for information about kids books for something meme-ish, and came across this list of 100 Best Canadian Books for Children, courtesy of the Toronto Public Library, but I have to admit that I’ve only read about ten or so of the books. Some of … Continue reading “Canadian Children’s Book Week”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}