September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Kids these days have it pretty rough. With books like this one providing such authoritative content on classic rock’s royalty, where are kids going to get all those great rumours and misinformed factoids that made ... Read More »
Nan Gregory is a gifted storyteller who has written a number of award-winning picture books, including How Smudge Came. I’ll Sing You One-O is her ambitious debut as a YA novelist. Set in and around ... Read More »
September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
In this teen issue novel set in Winnipeg and northwestern Ontario, Buffie tells the story of 16-year-old Bernice Dodd, whose alcoholic mother, Celia, has put her in a caretaking role she resents. Celia’s unreliability has ... Read More »
September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Devastated by the death of his older brother in France in September 1917, 16-year-old Edward Bathe defies his father by joining Saskatchewan’s Bull Moose Boys to fight “the Huns.” Edward wants to ensure that his ... Read More »
September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
I Am a Taxi’s 12-year-old protagonist, Diego, lives with his baby sister and mother in a tiny cell in Bolivia’s San Sebastian Women’s Prison; his father is incarcerated in the men’s prison across town because ... Read More »
September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
It’s hard to be a Scrooge about a new Christmas book for children, but this collaboration between veteran children’s writer Lucie Papineau and two-time Governor General’s Award-winning illustrator Stéphane Poulin seems to miss its mark. ... Read More »
September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
The Huron Carol’s English lyrics by Jesse Edgar Middleton are an early 20th-century adaptation of a Huron hymn written circa 1641 by Father Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary who lived with the Wendat (Huron) ... Read More »
September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Rarely does a children’s book suit its intended audience perfectly. The vocabulary may aim too high or low, or adult preoccupations may creep into what is supposed to be a child’s sphere of thought. But ... Read More »
September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
It’s one of those certainties like death or taxes: after an author reading, someone in the audience will invariably ask, “Where do you get your ideas?” Without saying where, exactly, children’s poet Loris Lesynski ponders ... Read More »
September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Casper Hutt is a barely literate Alberta ranch hand and former professional bull rider whose life is changed by a piece of registered mail. He has been left the deed to some land in Scotch ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels