March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
A number of years ago, one of the most interesting phenomena associated with Canadian young people’s literature was the number of women writing highly successful young adult fiction featuring male protagonists. Today, one of the ... Read More »
One moment 11-year-old Marianne is heading off to school, stewing over an upcoming math test; the next she finds the school doors closed to her and ordinary life finished. For a Jewish child growing up ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Akbar was a Mogul emperor of India who ruled between 1556 and 1605. The Moguls were Moslem, and Akbar is remembered, not only for consolidating the empire begun by his grandfather, but for winning acceptance ... Read More »
March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Compiled by the Ross family (father Julian is the founder of Polestar Books, while sons Noah and Jesse are 12- and 15-year-old hockey experts), the Amazing Allstar Hockey Activity Book is a jam-packed compendium of ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Compiled by the Ross family (father Julian is the founder of Polestar Books, while sons Noah and Jesse are 12- and 15-year-old hockey experts), the Amazing Allstar Hockey Activity Book is a jam-packed compendium of ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Fernandes’ version of this Christmas classic excels while differing from existing versions in several respects. A sense of light humour pervades the story, as when Santa is shown struggling to free his bulging sack from ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
“I wasn’t always Grandma, you know, bespectacled and stiff-kneed. Once I was Sarah May.” So begins a beautiful, lyrical story about a young girl from long ago, her practical parents, and an elusive red dress.Sarah ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
This is a coming-of-age book with a twist; it’s Mom’s coming of age, twice. We meet Jan Crowther in mid-life, an emotional and physical wreck, desperate to find her runaway daughter, Lisa. To soothe her ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In this novel, Carol Matas takes up the story of her character Ruth Mendenberg from November 1947 to April 1948, the uncertain period leading up to the establishment of a Jewish state. It’s the sequel ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
On May 2, 1907, L.M. Montgomery wrote, in a letter to a prairie homesteader she had been corresponding with, of the good news that her book manuscript had been accepted by a publisher. In this ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books