Children and YA Fiction

When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew: Tales of Ti-Jean

Ti-Jean is the lovable everyman hero of many traditional stories that originated in France and were transferred to Canada centuries ago. In this collection of tales, Jan Andrews brings him to life for a new ... Read More »

April 4, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Strutting It! The Grit Behind the Glamour

By Jeanne Beker

If you have any interest in fashion (and probably even if you don’t), you know of Jeanne Beker. The fashion media icon is back with a third title for teens, following The Big Night Out ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Blink & Caution

By Tim Wynne-Jones

Blink and Caution are a pair of teens living on the streets of Toronto. One morning, Blink, who exists on pilfered breakfasts from fancy hotels, gets off on the wrong floor of the wrong building ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Undergrounders

By David Skuy

David Skuy, author of the popular trilogy of Charlie Joyce hockey novels, returns to Canada’s national winter sport with his first stand-alone novel. This sensitively written and compelling book tells the story of Mouse, an ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Better Than Weird

By Anna Kerz

Anna Kerz’s first novel, The Mealworm Diaries, focused on the trials of Jeremy, a boy from Nova Scotia, as he adapted to a new life in Toronto after his father’s death. In Better Than Weird, ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Better Together

By Sheryl Shapiro and Simon Shapiro; Dusan Petricic, illus.

In this amusing concept book, Toronto husband-and-wife team Sheryl and Simon Shapiro explore the idea of mixtures, both edible (like oil and vinegar for salad dressing) and otherwise (like blue and yellow paints to make ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Yes You Can! Your Guide to Becoming an Activist

By Jane Drake and Ann Love

If there is a formula for creating an engaged young citizen, it might look something like this: take one child with a curious and empathetic disposition, and add a lot of reading materials. With that ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Winter Shadows

By Margaret Buffie

Vicky Metcalf Award–winner Margaret Buffie returns with a breathtaking novel that is part realism, part time-travel fantasy, and part coming of age tale. Winter Shadows focuses on two young women who live in the same ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

This Is Silly!

By Gary Taxali

Celebrated artist and illustrator Gary Taxali has mastered a style that evokes the posters and advertising design of the 1930s. His first picture book for children is filled with his trademark kooky characters and chunky ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

A Porcupine in a Pine Tree

By Helaine Becker; Werner Zimmerman, illus.

Christmas books often fall into one of two categories: those that set out to capture the emotional or spiritual meaning of the holiday, and those that celebrate the fun. The warm-hearted but not overly sentimental ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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