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Page 18 THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday June 1990 Book review Something Good is a delight Thomson News Service For more than a dozen years your obedient servant has been reviewing childrens that have poured like Niagara Falls from this countrys quite extraor dinary publishers But boks are not only for Christmas any more than good fellowship and cheer should be and a surprising number of books for children are published and too often overlooked from January to June Possibly the finest and now most prolific house for exclusively childrens books is Annick Press and its cup overflowest once more The much loved Robert and his best illustrator Michael has put out Something Good hardcover which is not top Munsch but still a delight Daddy takes his kids to the supermarket and the little troublemakers buy a lot more than he had expected leading to quite hilarious results The magnificent Kathy Stinson has The Dressed Up Book hardcover which should become as grand a classic as her Red is Best A group of children play dressup in the ex quisite drawings of Heather Collins while the author asks question after question How do you sham poo Rainbow hair Rapunzel hair hair Haunted hair This book sounds and looks so right your under eights should go wild with delight its close to perfection Annick has so many other superior books out its hard to choose and we were thrilled to see the fabulous Bonnie McSmithers scries of Sue Ann out in Annickins its tiny little editions But attention must be paid to Kim Visiting Granny hardcover unpaginated which has plastercme art that is utterly irresistible along with a fine story And although we dont usually cite foreign matter we just have to note publication of a German soon-to- Main St GEORGETOWN Xv GOOEY GOOD TRYOURNEW DELIVERY SERVICE beclassic Now Now Markus paperback unpaginated Surreal eerie hilarious and unbearably creative this tale of the child who longs for a pet threatening to drop dead is one of the best books for children publish ed in many a year LAST KIIALSA BOOK And speaking of magnificence let us mourn once again the pass ing away from cancer of one of the giants of Canadian childrens literature and art Daya Kaur Khalsa Her final book one must choke back the tears for she must have had dozens more in her gifted mind and sou is Cowboy Dreams Tundra 32 pages hardcover 1795 and like earlier just-as- fabulous Tales of a Gambling Grandma and I Want a Dog is nostalgic poetic hysterically fun ny touching witty and more A lit tle girl sits for hours on her ban nister horse and sings her cowboy songs longing to ride into the land of the cowboys s unbearably wise sensitivity and understanding of every childs longiiigs are at their peak here Dont miss this one Greey de Pencier Books con tinues to turn out extremely good oversized colorful reasonably priced and useful yet highly entertaining books for children A recent series includes Rainy Day Book The Puzzlers Book Family Car Book Bee Hives and Bat Caves and more All are paperback pages and which is astonishingly generous Each is overflowing with fun puzzles super games and great facts and the covers dont lie These books thoughtfully placed in the well of every family car that enjoyssuffers children over the age of six will save many a trip Good stuff Scholastic Books another of Canadas solid publishers of books for children has several new QUICKPIK THE QUICK PLACE TO SHOP BAGGED MILK Homo Skim Corton Cigarettes Cigarettes pkg All Thurs Weekend New Movies l All Older Movies All The Time NINTENDO Machine Games 99 Weekend Gomes gems Farmer Joe Goes to the City hardcover 24 pages is a charming and highly modern twist on the old citycountry shallIbuymywife story Seeing Farmer Joe sitting in a shopping mall surrounded by his chickens and a pig leaning on him is a scream And No Dinosaurs in the Park hardcover 24 pages is an excellent study of imagina tion as a little girl and her grand dad see all these wonderful dinosaurs on their walk but mom sure doesnt Its very well done by author Dorothy Joan Harris and artist Daigneault Oxford and Macmillan are hard ly but both can be counted on for excellence Oxfords The Tinder Box hard cover 28 pages is a retell ing of the Hans Christian Anderson tate about a greedy but crafty soldier who surprise ends up with both the money and the princess illustra tions are haunting and make the book especially memorable And The Look Out Book paperback unpaginated subtitled A Childs Guide to Water Safety is a bit earnest but Bar bara Klunders witty drawings of waterskiing moose and fishing frogs makes it all worthwhile And if this book saves the life of one child and it will then it is in valuable Poetry is always a mixed bless ing in childrens books especially when tried by overserious adults McClelland and Stewart had Old Mrs and Other Friends by Charles Wilkins il lustrated quite grotesquely by Vic tor Gad hardcover 32 pages Its highly uneven but sometimes wonderfully lunatic as in The Vaseline Cheer Vaseline for for with mayon naise Vaseline crunch Strange but often But one cannot praise too highly Lois Who Greased the Shoelaces illustrated by her daughter Anne Simmie paperback pages If the drawings recall Shel who cares Hes a darned good ar tist to imitate Ditto the poems which are usually strikingly good and disarmingly funny and also nave strong but very favorable Cable Systems Program Listings for Community Television Cable MONDAY JULY 2ND Star Studded Celebration 638 Ontario Canada Wetland News Anatomy ol the Human Mind No 1 830 Hills Heallh Spot Diabetes 900 Glimpses into Medicine TUESDAY JULY 3RD 530 April Sings Country Gospel TV TBA Canadian Farming On The Go Hot Seat Sports Program George Country Jamboree WEDNESDAY JULY 530 Vocational Training TV Slorytime 630 ii 700 Tbe Wilderness Will Show No 730 Don Lewis Keyboard Player Living With Cancer 900 In Ontario THURSDAY JULY 5TH Growing Up Split Seconds April Sings Country Gospel 730 Earth News Water Issue at Hot Seat Sports Program Welcome to Cameroon FRIDAY JULY 6TH Money in the Bank Region Council 700 Alice a play put on by Centennial Public School PLAYING THIS WEEK echoes of great Silverstein Hie poem about the kid who falls in love with a and wont stop using synonyms around the house Is Mom nervous timid ir ritable hysterical shaky aghast is uproarious and the en ding is as daring as it is inex orable And he led little Jimmy out in the yard Father heard her say Kill Butcher Slaughter Dispatch Assassinate Massacre Slay Brilliant Once again whether the kids are three or 13 at home or at camp your greatest gift to them this sum mer would be to share some or all of the above books with them Ditto your nieces nephews cousins and They sure beat Turtle toys Allan Gould a Toronto writer is the author of 14 books including the political satire The Great Wiped Out North He has two children himself on whom he tried out all of the above books SPRING SPECIAL limlod Full House Fox Family by Carl 348 Guetph Street 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