March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
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 »
To be an orphan in the late 1800s was a bleak fate indeed. Dressed in the workhouse uniform that proclaimed your state to the world, you were expected to express gratitude to your keepers while ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Lesley Choyce, an accomplished Nova Scotian writer for adults and young people, turns his hand to chapter books in Pottersfield’s new reading series of first novels for kids. In this unlikely, fast-moving tale, pre-pubescent Fred ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
As novels such as Chocolate Fever and The Chocolate Touch affirm, adventures about chocolate that are liberally laced with humour go down well with young readers of fiction. Crazy for Chocolate, an easy-to-read adventure story ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In the first line of Xanthe’s Pyramid, we’re immediately assaulted by that eternal pubescent lament – “You don’t trust me.” Mom and our 16-year-old protagonist are in a pitched battle because Xanthe broke curfew with ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
This sequel to Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice continues the story of Evelyn McCallum, now 15, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, awaiting the end of the Second World War and her father’s return from North ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Barbara Haworth-Attard is an Ontario author best known for her Mr. Christie Book Award nominee Home Child. In Buried Treasure, she tackles a coming-of-age novel for middle readers.The world is a bleak place to 15-year-old ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
If you crossed Anne of Green Gables with Little House on the Prairie and added a sharper political focus, the hybrid might resemble Nellie’s Quest. This is the second of Connie Brummel Crook’s thoroughly researched ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Writing for children tends to be conservative in form. One effect of this tendency is that children’s literature can be a haven for writers who are drawn to traditional forms that are currently unfashionable in ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Take an intriguing title, add a mystery, include a dash of danger, a bantering family, and a hate-love relationship with a horse, and you’ve got ingredients for a book that will please a wide-ranging audience. ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction