November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
In 2009’s When Wishes Come True, Little Bear yearned to be anything other than a polar bear cub living on barren, white stretches of Arctic ice with Mother Bear. He soon learned, however, that he ... Read More »
Per-Henrik Gürth’s Hockey Opposites is a delightfully cute and playful treatment of hockey for early readers. The book tells the story of a match between two teams made up of typical Gürthian critters such as ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
One day in 1946, hair salon owner Viola Desmond’s car broke down in the town of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. To pass the time while it was being fixed, she went to the movies, only ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Stanley’s back, but in this, the latest in the popular series with the delightfully comic dog’s-eye view of the world, the boisterous canine has to deal with trouble he didn’t cause. Stanley’s trouble takes the ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of his best-loved songs, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” in Canada’s centennial year, 1967. Lightfoot’s lyrics celebrate the vision and incredible effort that went into building the Canadian Pacific Railroad. They also celebrate ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
With his new YA novel, Cory Doctorow doesn’t press against the limits of the imagination so much as the limits of the genre. While For the Win is presented as fiction for younger readers, it’s ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Authors who incorporate, interpret, or subvert Arthurian legends in works of contemporary fantasy take a huge risk: the failure rate of such books is staggeringly high. Every so often, though, a writer is skilled enough ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In her fiction and non-fiction, Deborah Ellis has relentlessly brought to light the ways in which war and social injustice affect young people around the world. She continues to do so in her powerful new ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Most readers want fiction that is populated by likeable characters, but in the right hands, an unlikable character can add a bracing note of dissonance to a story. Sarah N. Harvey’s Death Benefits features Arthur ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Three young women make their difficult ways through three historical periods in a trio of new middle-grade novels. Though the settings and situations vary, all three novels show that the figure of Anne Shirley casts ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction