For Canadians, August 19, 1942 carries even more significance because many were led to believe the British organized battle at Dieppe was an important victory, not a bloody defeat.  As we honour the 67th anniversary of Dieppe later this month, a new children’s book will be published that explores the reasons, strategy, horror and incredible survival that are part of this Canadian tale.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, Mark speaks with author and historian Hugh Brewster about his new book Dieppe: Canada’s Darkest Day of World War II, and the importance of sharing the stories of the events and the people in war and remembrance.

Other books by Hugh Brewster:

• At Vimy Ridge: Canada’s Greatest World War I Victory
• On Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Heroes

More about war and remembrance on Just One More Book:

• A Bear in War
• A New Coat for Anna
• The Unknown Soldier
• The Diary of Laura’s Twin
• The Donkey of Gallipoli
• Janusz Korczak’s Children
• One Thousand Tracings
• A Poppy is to Remember
• Gleam and Glow
• The Cello of Mr. O
• What We Remember

You can hear more of Mark’s chat with Hugh Brewster on the Electric Sky podcast.

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Dazzling light glows against darkening shadow as this warmly told memory of friendship and fortitude peeks into a dim chapter in Canadian history.

Other books mentioned:

• Gleam and Glow
• Naomi’s Tree
• Naomi’s Road
• Baseball Saved Us

For more information about the Japanese Internment of 1942-1945, visit Vanishing British Columbia, Canada: A People’s History, and Canadian Nikkei.

You can read about more of our favourite Canadian, Asian-themed children’s books in this essay by Andrea at Paper Tigers.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, Mark speaks with Zetta Elliott, author of the book Bird, about publishing picture books that tackle real-life issues like drug addiction, getting published in foreign markets and being daring as both book publishers and book buyers.

To hear more of the conversation with Zetta, sign up for our monthly newsletter on our website, justonemorebook.com/newsletter, in time for the December 2008 issue which will include a link to more of our conversation.

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Accessible narrative, detailed annotations and a thought-provoking collection of photographs, postcards, pins and poems shed light on the ceremony, symbolism, chronology and controversy commemorating our global family’s losses to war.

More books about war and peace on JOMB:

• Angel Girl
• A New Coat for Anna
• The Donkey of Gallipoli (A True Story of Courage in World War I)
• If I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor, 1918
• A Poppy is To Remember
• The Diary of Laura’s Twin (A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers)
• Gleam and Glow
• Janusz Korczak’s Children
• What We Remember
• The Cello of Mr. O
• Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In A War
• One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II
• Seven Brave Women
• And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends
• Aunt Claire’s Yellow Beehive Hair

HOTLINE VOICES: Author Alison McGhee shares the reasons why Swiss Family Robinson (by Johann D. Wyss) is one of her childhood favourites.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave us a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

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Beautifully bound in a soft unevenly edged journal and told with humour, innocence, intimacy and affection, the daily entries of a fictional twelve year old disclose the spellbinding details of life during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19.

Our daughter Lucy (9) also contributes to the discussion of the book, which she tells us is part of her current favourite series.

More books touching on war and peace on JOMB:

• The Donkey of Gallipoli (A True Story of Courage in World War I)
• A Poppy is To Remember
• Gleam and Glow
• Janusz Korczak’s Children
• What We Remember
• The Cello of Mr. O
• Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In A War
• One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II
• Seven Brave Women
• And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends
• Aunt Claire’s Yellow Beehive Hair

More illness on JOMB:

• The Tortilla Cat
• The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Farm Flu

HOTLINE VOICES: Author Michelle Mulder from Victoria, British Columbia shares her thoughts on The Composition (by Antonio Skarmeta and Alfonso Ruano). Thanks, Michelle!

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Deceptively simple looking folk art illustrations, uncluttered narration and sparse, intimate utterings deliver some of the dark, disturbing details of war in this eye-opening, true tale of courage, carnage and camaraderie.

More war and peace on JOMB:

• A Poppy is To Remember
• Gleam and Glow
• Janusz Korczak’s Children
• What We Remember
• Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In A War

HOTLINE VOICES: Bobby (a grade two teacher in Phoenix, AZ) describes a difference of opinion between he and his fiancée (a grade one teacher) and asks the question, what is the best way to read books to a group of children?

While she may be best known for her work in promoting writing as a literacy tool, Gloria Houston has used children’s books as part of her work with grieving children.

On this edition of Just One More Book!!, Mark speaks with author and educator Gloria Houston about the value of children’s book in helping children understand death and the cycle of life.

Other books mentioned:

• The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
• The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst and Erik Blegvad
• Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child by Rabbi Earl Grollman
• My Brother Joey Died by Gloria Houston, Gloria McLendon and Harvey Kelman
• On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
• Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Mark’s Uncle, Earl Blevis, who passed away on Saturday, September 13, 2008.

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Eye-opening scatterings of yellowed newspaper footprints, handwritten lists and aged, intimate snapshots make vivid this beautifully told true story of hardship, generosity and the pulling together of communities torn to opposite sides of war.

Other books mentioned:

• The Gardener

More books about generosity on JOMB:

• Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed

More books about war and peace on JOMB:

• Seven Brave Women
• A Poppy is to Remember
• Gleam and Glow
• The Cello of Mr. O
• What We Remember

Check out the full list of non-fiction picture books nominated for the 2007 Cybils Awards here.

• A Bird About to Sing
• A Day in the life of Murphy
• A Horse in the House
• A isn’t for Fox (An Isn’t Alphabet)
• Amadi’s Snowman
• A Medieval Feast
• A New Coat for Anna
• A Penguin Story
• A Poppy is To Remember
• A Very Improbable Story
• Across the Alley
• Alphabetter
• Amelia’s Road
• Amos’s Sweater
• An Egg is Quiet
• And the DISH Ran Away with the SPOON
• And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends
• Angel Girl
• Animals at the EDGE (Saving the World’s Rarest Creatures)
• Astronaut Handbook
• Aunt Claire’s Yellow Beehive Hair
• A Very Unusual Dog
• Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
• Baby! Baby!
• Baby Brains
• Badness for Beginners
• Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
• Ballerina Dreams: A True Story
• Bantam of the Opera
• Barn
• Baseball Hour
• Before You Were Here, Mi Amor
• Ben’s Trumpet
• Berry Magic
• Best Friend on Wheels
• Big Black Bear
• Bill in a China Shop
• Bintou’s Braids
• Bird
• Biscuits in the Cupboard
• Borreguita and the Coyote
• Bubble Homes and Fish Farts
• Buffalo Music
• But If They Do…
• Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus
• Carmine: A Little More Red
• Cassandra’s Angel
• Cat Magic
• Chloë’s Birthday. . . and Me
• Chopsticks
• Cinderella Skeleton
• Clara and Senor Frog
• Clementine’s Letter
• Come to the Castle: A Visit to a Castle in Thirteenth-Century England
• Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons
• Cuddly Dudley
• Dad’s Bald Head
• Darkness Slipped In
• Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones
• Dino-Hockey
• Dirty Dog Boogie
• Do Unto Otters
• Doctor Ted
• Doggie in the Window
• Dogs’ Night
• Don’t Lick the Dog
• Don’t Need Friends
• Dr. White
• Dr. Xargle’s Book of Earth Hounds
• Drumheller Dinosaur Dance
• Duck Tents
• The Dunderheads
• Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
• Elbert’s Bad Word
• The Story Blanket
• Elinor and Violet: The Story of Two Naughty Chickens
• Elizabeti’s Doll
• Ella’s Big Chance
• Emily
• Emma’s Rug
• Enemy Pie
• Faces of the Moon
• Falling Angels
• Falling For Rapunzel
• Farm Flu
• Fatima, the Spinner and the Tent
• Fiendish Deeds (The Joy of Spooking)
• 52 Days by Camel
• Fire Up With Reading!
• Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog
• Fly, Eagle, Fly
• Follow the Drinking Gourd
• Freedom Child of the Sea
• Full House: An Invitation to Fractions
• Fun Dog, Sun Dog
• Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick
• Give A Goat
• Gleam and Glow
• Go to Bed, Monster!
• Good Dog
• Gracie, The Public Gardens Duck
• Grandma’s Feather Bed
• Greedyanna
• Hairy Maclary’s Caterwaul Caper
• Halloween Hoots and Howls
• Hamlet for Kids
• Hana in the Time of the Tulips
• Happy As A Tapir
• Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon
• Heroes of Isle aux Morts
• Hogwood Steps Out: A Good, Good Pig Story
• How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet
• How Smudge Came
• How to Heal a Broken Wing
• Humphrey’s First Christmas
• Hunwick’s Egg
• I Always, Always Get My Way
• I Am Small
• I Can Hear the Sun
• I Need My Monster
• I Want A Dog
• If I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor, 1918
• If I Had a Million Onions
• If You Were A Parrot
• Iggy Peck, Architect
• I’m Not Cute!
• In the Heart of the Village
• Inventor McGregor
• Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears
• Is a Worry Worrying You?
• It’s A Snap! George Eastman’s First Photograph
• Itsy Bitsy & Teeny Weeny
• Jamela’s Dress
• Janusz Korczak’s Children
• Jazz ABZ (An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits)
• Jillian Jiggs
• Journey to the River Sea
• Kate and the Beanstalk
• Kendra Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers
• Kid Tea
• Lady Liberty: A Biography
• Lady Lupin’s Book of Etiquette
• Let Freedom Sing
• “Let’s Get a Pup!” said Kate
• Lester Fizz, Bubble-Gum Artist
• Library Lion
• Lights For Gita
• Lily and the Paper Man
• Little Lions, Bull Baiters & Hunting Hounds: A History of Dog Breeds
• Little Sister and the Month Brothers
• Little Squarehead
• Little Wolf’s Book of Badness
• Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
• Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains
• Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In The War
• Mama Robot
• Mama’s Saris
• Mammoth Pie
• Marco Polo
• Mattland
• Max Said “Yes” (The Woodstock Story)
• Max’s Words
• May I Pet Your Dog?
• McFig & McFly: A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge, and Death {with a Happy Ending}
• Mei Ming and the Dragon’s Daughter
• Michael Rosen’s Sad Book
• Mile-High Apple Pie
• Missing Math (A Number Mystery)
• Monkey Business
• Monster Goose
• Monsters Don’t Eat Broccoli
• Mr. Hiroshi’s Garden
• Mrs. Goat and Her Seven Little Kids
• Mummy Never Told Me
• My Best Friend
• My Dad’s A Birdman
• My Friend Jamal
• My Great Aunt Arizona
• My Pup
• My Travelin’ Eye
• Nanbosho: How the Turtle Got its Shell
• New Year at the Pier (A Rosh Hashanah Story)
• Neo Leo (the Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci)
• Nic Bishop’s Frogs
• Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story
• Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of His Faithful Dog
• No Dragons for Tea
• No English
• Not in Room 204
• Not Norman: A Goldfish Story
• Not so Rotten Ralph
• Nutcracker Noel
• Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep
• Ocean’s Child
• Odd Velvet
• Oh No, Not Ghosts
• Oh, Theodore! (Guinea Pig Poems)
• On the Scale, a Weighty Tale
• Oliver Has Something to Say!
• One Beetle Too Many — The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
• One Smile
• One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II
• One Witch
• On Top of Spaghetti
• Oops!
• Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed
• Over in the Ocean … in a Coral Reef
• Owney the Mail-Pouch Pooch
• Patrick the Somnambulist
• Perfect Man
• Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood
• Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
• Pirate Bob
• Plantpet
• Poodlena
• Priscilla and the Hollyhocks
• Pumpkin Soup
• Quennu and the Cave Bear
• Rattlebone Rock
• Red Butterfly (How a Princess Smuggled the Secret of Silk Out of China)
• Roar of a Snore
• Rosie: A Visiting Dog’s Story
• Ruby The Copycat
• Ruby’s Wish
• Rumplestilskin’s Daughter
• Safe and Sound
• Sandy Mackenzie, Why Look So Glum?
• Sanji and the Baker
• Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
• Saving Samantha: A True Story
• Science Verse
• Scribble
• Seven Brave Women
• She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head
• Show; Don’t Tell: Secrets of Writing
• Silent Music (A Story of Baghdad)
• Silly Tilly
• Sing, Sophie
• Sitting On the Farm
• Sleeping Dragons All Around
• Sleepover Larry
• The Sleepy Little Alphabet
• Smoky Mountain Rose (An Appalachian Cinderella)
• Snow
• Snowsong Whistling
• Someday
• Someday When My Cat Can Talk
• Some Helpful Tips for a Better World and a Happier Life
• Sourpuss And Sweetie Pie
• Spotty & Eddie Learn to Compromise
• Stella, Unleashed!
• Such A Prince
• Suki’s Kimono
• Swine Lake
• Swine Snafu
• Taj Mahal
• Ten Days and Nine Nights (An Adoption Story)
• The Araboolies of Liberty Street
• The Bat Boy and His Violin
• The Best Of Times (Math Strategies that Multiply)
• The Book Of Time Outs: A Mostly True History of the World’s Biggest Troublemakers
• The Butter Man
• The Call to Shakabaz
• The Cello of Mr. O
• The Clay Ladies
• The Crow
• The Diary of Laura’s Twin (A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers)
• The Donkey of Gallipoli (A True Story of Courage in World War I)
• The Dragons Are Singing Tonight
• The Dumpster Diver
• The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell
• The Eensy-Weensy Spider
• The Empty Pot
• The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
• The Fiesta Dress (A Quinceanera Tale)
• The Fisherman and the Turtle
• The Frog Prince Continued
• The Frog Princess
• The Gardener
• The Greatest Power (The Gecko & Sticky)
• The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe
• The Grandmother Doll
• The HICCUPotamus
• The Hilarious Adventures of Mish and Mash
• The Hound from the Pound
• The House that Crack Built
• The Incredible Book Eating Boy
• The Killick
• The King of Capri
• The King’s Equal
• The King’s Taster
• The Lamp, the Ice and the Boat Called Fish
  
• The Lime Green Secret
• The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
• The Looking Book
• The Lotus Seed
• The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating
• The Magic Hockey Stick
• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• The Noisy Airplane Ride
• The Not-So-Only Child
• The Outside Dog
• The Painted Chest
• The Painted Circus
• The Party
• The Penderwicks On Gardam Street
• The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
• The Piggy in The Puddle
• The Puddle Pail
• The Recess Queen
• The Red Thread
• The Red Wolf
• The Rich Man and the Parrot
• The Ring Bear
• The Scrambled States of America Talent Show
• The Shivers in the Fridge
• The Snow Show — with Chef Kelvin
• The Sound of Colors
• The Story of the Search for the Story
• The Storytelling Princess
• The Three Fishing Brothers Gruff
• The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
• The Tortilla Cat
• The Trouble with Tilly Trumble
• The Twelve Dancing Princesses
• The Unknown Soldier
• The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur
• The Way Back Home
• The White Stone in the Castle Wall
• There Were Monkeys in my Kitchen
• There’s a Babirusa in My Bathtub
• The Worst Best Friend
• Thing-Thing
• Today I Will Fly!
• Too Many Books
• Too Many Tamales
• Treasure for Lunch
• Tudley Didn’t Know
• Two Frogs
• Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast
• Up
• Victor and Christabel
• Wait! No Paint!
• Waiting For Benjamin: A Story about Autism
• Wenceslas
• What We Remember
• What’s the Big Secret?
• When-I-was-a-little-girl
• When I Was King
• When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat
• When Pigs Fly
• Where in the Wild?
• Willow
• Wish: Wishing Traditions Around the World
• You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax‽
• Yuck. A Love Story
• Zelda and Ivy
• Zorgamazoo

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Delicately depicted in mint, peach and red, this beautifully worded legend shares the solitary heartbreak and secret unraveling of a young girl who shines light into her own uncertain future.

Other books mentioned:

• Goodnight Moon
• Gleam and Glow

Eve Bunting is a master of helping children to understand the world around them and validating emotions. She’s published over 200 books and some of her best known work tackles issues including war, unrest and the loss of a friend.

Eve Bunting is our guest on this edition of Just One More Book.

Books mentioned:

• Gleam and Glow
• Robinson Crusoe
• Swiss Family Robinson
• Anne of Green Gables
• Rudi’s Pond
• Fly Away Home
• Smoky Night

Participate in the conversation by leaving a comment on this interview, or send an email to justonemorebook@gmail.com.

Photo: Sloan Bunting

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Gorgeous illustrations and beautifully crafted text relay a story of heartbreak and hope so poignant that even chatting about it was difficult, but we did our best.

This show opens with our first MyChingo audio comment, which we received from author Paul Levinson of the Light On Light Through Podcast, just in time for this – our fiftieth – episode! Thanks, Paul.