Children and YA Non-fiction

The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships

Human nature is a mass of contradiction and ambiguity. We hurt what we profess to love, we kill with kindness, and we deny any culpability. Almost nothing exemplifies our contradictory nature like our relationship with ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Confession

By Lee Gowan

Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, that oft-quoted paragon of unreliable narrators, said you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. It’s an absurd statement, of course, as any parole officer or criminal psychologist ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Valley of the Lost

By Vicki Delany

The small town of Trafalgar, B.C., seems far more suited to quiet vacations than murder, but the detective duo of Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters know better. Their debut, In the Shadow of ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Apologize, Apologize!

By Elizabeth Kelly

There’s a scattered, unsettling feeling to journalist and magazine editor Elizabeth Kelly’s first novel. Maybe it’s the seemingly endless jumble of canines constantly getting underfoot. Maybe it’s the way the narrator, Collie Flanagan, darts like ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

One Careless Moment

By Dave Hugelschaffer

When fighting wildfires, one moment can lead to tragedy. When arson enters the equation, tragedy can turn into murder. One Careless Moment is the second of Dave Hugelschaffer’s Porter Cassel mysteries. As the novel opens, ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada’s Media Mogul

By Peter C. Newman

This year the machinery mythologizing the high rollers of capitalism is grinding mightily, with the focus turning to media magnates. Donald Trump still holds court on television’s The Apprentice; there’s a new biography of William ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Horror Story and Other Horror Stories

By Robert Boyczuk

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 »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

What Stirs

By Margaret Christakos

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

Godblog

By Laurie Channer

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

Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth

By Robert Bateman, with Nancy Kovacs

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

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