Children and YA Fiction

Rich by Thirty: A Young Adult’s Guide to Financial Success

Leslie Scorgie grew up in a home where money was “very tight” – but by the time she was 17, she was giving financial advice on Oprah. Now 23, she works in finance, owns her ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Strike a Pose: The Planet Girl Guide to Yoga

By Karen Birkemoe; Heather Collett, illus

Until now, most yoga books for kids have been written for adults who intend to teach young students. Strike a Pose fills a gap in the market, offering a succinct overview of yoga and a ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Don’t Go Into the Forest!

By Veronika Martenova Charles; David Parkins, illus.

Tundra Books has published an unusual series of five books geared to both the educational and trade markets. Written at a Grade 2 level, these readers share the same format, characters, and theme – scary ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How It Happened in Peach Hill

By Marthe Jocelyn

Marthe Jocelyn has written before about the smoke-and-mirrors world of carnival entertainers: her 2003 novel Earthly Astonishments followed the fortunes of a girl in a Coney Island sideshow in the 1880s. In her new YA ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

1212: Year of the Journey

By Kathleen McDonnell

It’s 1233, and Abel is returning to France after serving the sultan in Cairo as teacher, adviser, and friend for the past 21 years. Abel had left France as part of the glorious Children’s Crusade ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Factory Girl

By Barbara Greenwood

In Factory Girl, veteran writer Barbara Greenwood chronicles life for early-20th-century child labourers in North America. To bring this history alive, Greenwood creates Emily, a young girl forced to leave school and find work after ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ellen Fremedon, Volunteer

By Joan Givner

To the uninitiated, the title of the new Ellen Fremedon novel looks about as promising as an arrowroot biscuit gone soft on a hospital tray. However, those familiar with the first two books in Joan ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

One Winter Night

By Jennifer Lloyd; Lynn Ray, illus.

A rare thing it is to find a holiday offering for children untethered to the licensed-character marketing beast. Rarer still to find a book that gives shape to the sensibility of a Canadian Christmas without ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Little Squire: The Jumping Pony

By Judy Andrekson; David Parkins, illus.

Pretending your bicycle is a horse. Combing out the plastic mane of your turquoise “My Little Pony.” Learning the trick of drawing a horse from three circles. Discussing your dream animal – bay or chestnut, ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Goodnight, Sweet Pig

By Linda Bailey; Josée Masse, illus.

The rhyming tale of escalating porcine anarchy is one that has been all but perfected by American author-illustrator David McPhail in books like Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!, and Pigs Ahoy! Thus it is hard not ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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