Children and YA Fiction

Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders

With cooking shows proliferating on TV, and with the 2007 hit movie Ratatouille (about a rat that loves to cook), it was probably inevitable that someone would take a stab at creating the sort of ... Read More »

March 15, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Think Again

By JonArno Lawson; Julie Morstad, illus.

Parents often look at their teenagers and wonder: “What the heck is going on in that head?” The moping, the slouching, the copious amounts of black clothing – all can be attributed, for the most ... Read More »

February 8, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

What’s the Big Idea? Inventions that Changed Life on Earth Forever

By Helaine Becker; Steve Attoe, illus.

Boredom Blasters and The Insecto-Files author Helaine Becker delves into the history of technology in What’s the Big Idea? Split into four chronological sections spanning 4,000 years, the book examines groundbreaking innovations and highlights a ... Read More »

January 27, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Tyranny

By Lesley Fairfield

In Tyranny, author and illustrator Lesley Fairfield documents the struggle of a teenage girl who falls victim to the thinsanity of popular culture. Despite evidence to the contrary, Anna thinks that she’s fat, and what ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Delicious Bug

By Janet Perlman

In a forest, two chameleons (Willy and Wally) flick out their tongues and catch a bug. Unfortunately, it is the same bug, a pink blob that resembles a winged wad of bubble gum with eyes. ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs

By Ian Tyson; Adeline Halvorson, illus.

La Primera is an attractive pairing of a song by Canadian folk-music legend Ian Tyson and a set of paintings by Saskatchewan-born Adeline Halvorson. Following the history of mustangs from 1493, when the first such ... Read More »

April 15, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Swim the Fly

By Don Calame

Reading like a cross between Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Karate Kid, Don Calame’s Swim the Fly finds nerdy 15-year-old Matt Gratton conspiring with his equally nerdy buddies, Cooper and Sean, to achieve ... Read More »

April 8, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Girl #3

By Nichole McGill

A tomboy-ish track-and-field star, 14-year-old Syd is a standard-issue, mildly confused suburban teenager, alienated from her divorced parents, extremely clever and wonderfully street-smart. Syd discovers she’s a serial killer’s intended third victim one morning when, ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hurry Up, Nicholas!

By Gilles Tibo; Bruno St-Aubin, illus.; Petra Johansonn, trans.

The powerhouse Quebec-based duo of writer Gilles Tibo and illustrator Bruno St-Aubin team up here for the third in their Nicholas series, aimed at the early elementary set. Previously, in Too Many Books!, Nicholas had ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Getting There

By Marla Stewart Konrad

Getting There and Mom and Me are the first two entries in the World Vision Early Reader series. (Grand and I Like to Play are promised.) Both are filled with full-colour images from photographers around ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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