December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Despite its playfully generic title, only a handful of the 19 stories in this debut collection are traditional tales of horror involving monsters, vampires, or murderous evil spirits. Instead, it is an anthology of genre-bending ... Read More »
What Stirs is the seventh collection from Toronto-based poet and teacher Margaret Christakos. While there are a few individual poems in the book, this is primarily a set of sequences. Christakos employs an unspecified roster ... Read More »
December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
The publicity bumph for Toronto author Laurie Channer’s debut novel promises an edgy narrative in the vein of Douglas Coupland. It’s fine to aim high, but Godblog does not come remotely close to dethroning Canada’s ... Read More »
December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
The nearly 80-year-old artist Robert Bateman’s wildlife paintings are both photo-realistic and strikingly animated – imbuing their subjects with life, even when they are depicted doing nothing more than sunning themselves. The paintings are, therefore, ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Doors can be a metaphor for life, with the potential to link us directly with our past, present, and future. In Traitors’ Gate, Whitehorse author Claire Eamer explains this symbolism through the history of eight ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Told entirely in rhyming couplets, Toronto (by way of Vancouver and the U.K.) author Robert Paul Weston’s Zorgamazoo is a story rich in clever wordplay, unusual characters, and fantastic circumstances. Katrina Katrell is a clever ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Deborah Ellis is no stranger to the world of politically themed young adult fiction. Her latest book, Lunch with Lenin, is a powerful and skillfully executed collection of short stories about the impact of drugs, ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Irene Watts’s Good-Bye Marianne is the story of an 11-year-old Jewish girl living in Berlin in the late 1930s. Over the course of several weeks, Marianne witnesses a murder, is barred from attending school, discovers ... Read More »
October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica
The editors of YES Mag are back with their fourth non-fiction title for young readers. And like their previous books – which include The International Space Station and Science Detectives – Robots is a lively ... Read More »
October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
The latest book by best-selling science writer Candace Savage (Prairie: A Natural History) celebrates bees, arguably the most beloved of all insect groups. We love them, stings and all, for many very good reasons. Bees ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment