Kids’ Books

The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature

By Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller, eds.

A single-volume history of Canadian literature “from the beginnings” – which here means the first European contact with Native peoples – presents a formidable challenge. The “two women scholars” (their self-description) who have edited this ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

The STU Reader: Poetry, Prose and Fiction by St. Thomas University Writers

By Douglas Vipond and Russell A. Hunt, eds.

St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, offers a liberal arts education, which, given our current obsession with job training, is increasingly rare for post-secondary institutions. The year 2010 marks St. Thomas’s centenary, and this ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Curiosity

By Joan Thomas

The best historical novels effortlessly transport their readers back into the past, while less successful attempts bury the reader in musty research and leave the characters to gather dust. Curiosity, the sophomore effort from Winnipeg-based ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Which Way?

By Marthe Jocelyn; Tom Slaughter, illus.

Although aimed at the very young, this new picture book from Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter is not simplistic. The questions it poses in short, internally rhyming sentences (“How do we know which way to ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

How Do You Read to a Rabbit?

By Andrea Wayne von Konigslow

This cheerful picture book by Toronto author/illustrator Andrea Wayne von Konigslow plays with the characteristics of various animals and the imagined difficulties of trying to read to them. In each spread a little girl is ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

Topsy-Turvy Town

By Luc Melanson

There are few things as charming as the deeper reaches of a child’s imagination. Quebec illustrator and children’s author Luc Melanson draws on this adorable quality in his newest picture book. A little boy leads ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Chester’s Masterpiece

By Melanie Watt

Mélanie Watt’s notori0usly timid Scaredy Squirrel has become a huge hit with younger readers, spawning merchandise and even a television show. Chester, another of Watt’s creations, is in many ways the exact opposite of the ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

Ella’s Umbrellas

By Jennifer Lloyd; Ashley Spires, illus.

Ella has an enviable collection of umbrellas. They are colourful and speckled, sparkly and spotty, and she treasures every one. Her favourite, however, is the one that is “robin’s egg blue,” a gift from “kind ... Read More »

April 16, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Doctrine of Affections

By Paul Headrick

In music, the “doctrine of the affections” is the theory that a composer can elicit involuntary emotions in listeners by utilizing certain techniques, such as large or small intervals between notes (meant to invoke joy ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Extinction Club

By Jeffrey Moore

In Jeffrey Moore’s third novel, a recovering addict from Neptune, New Jersey, arrives in a snowy Laurentian town with nothing but a beat-up van, withdrawal hallucinations, and a suitcase full of inherited cash. Fleeing lawsuits, ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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