September 21, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Bugz Holiday lives in two worlds. In the real world, Bugz – the protagonist of writer and politician Wab Kinew’s first fantasy novel for young readers, Walking in Two Worlds – is an Anishinaabe high ... Read More »
On November 19, 1929, Celia’s celebrating her 13th birthday with her family when their house on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula begins to shake. Alarmed, everyone runs outside. Was it an explosion? Nobody knows. Since there is ... Read More »
September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Toronto cartoonist Rosena Fung is well known on the zine and comics festival circuit, and while for many readers her first full-length graphic novel will showcase a new talent, for others Living with Viola is ... Read More »
September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
For more than 60 years, girls have lived in peace on the Hill, an island shaped like a girl resting on her side. Sent by the mysterious Colony, they arrive in boats as infants and ... Read More »
August 16, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Nafiza Azad’s sophomore novel, The Wild Ones, is a powerful, unapologetically feminist YA fantasy. “We have the temerity to be not just women, but women of color,” the eponymous group declares. “We will not be ... Read More »
August 10, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Over a year into a global pandemic that continues to shape our daily lives, this new middle-grade graphic novel from Whitney Gardner takes a timely look at what it means to be kept apart from ... Read More »
June 24, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
The summer after high school is innately a period of transition, but most graduates teetering on the precipice of adulthood face far less harrowing circumstances than Charlotte Romer. The Last Time I Saw Her, a ... Read More »
June 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
The only kid at Eagle Shores Trailer Park in 1978, 11-year-old Truly is persuaded into opening a lemonade stand by her neighbour and grandmother figure, Andy El, so she has something to keep her occupied. ... Read More »
June 17, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Research shows that verse and simple rhymes aid in early childhood development. Babies and toddlers respond to “Itsy Bitsy Spider” because their little brains and bodies are working to make sense of their worlds, to ... Read More »
June 7, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
We’re taught to fear blood, maybe because it’s so often tied to death and gore. In Toronto author Liselle Sambury’s Blood Like Magic, blood signifies other things, too – notably our link to our ancestry ... Read More »
June 3, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books