Kids’ Books

Pounce de Leon

By Tim Wynne-Jones; Alfredo Tapia, illus.

As in his much-loved Zoom series of picture books, Tim Wynne-Jones’s newest, Pounce de Leon, features a cat in the role of explorer-hero. Drawing on the self-contained and introspective “personality” often ascribed to cats, Wynne-Jones ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Down the Drain

By Robert Munsch; Michael Martchenko, illus.

Robert Munsch has done it again. The prolific storyteller’s latest book keeps up the high standard of silliness we’ve come to expect from Canada’s King of KidLit. The familiar formula of repetition, exaggeration, and humour ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Queen of Paradise’s Garden

By Andy Jones; Darka Erdelji, illus.

Andy Jones, a founder of the comedy troupe CODCO, retells a traditional Newfoundland tale here, just as he did in 2003’s Hackmatack Award-winning Peg Bearskin. The story features elements in common with many good folk ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Second Person Queer: Who You Are (So Far)

By Richard LaBonté and Lawrence Schimel, eds.

The introduction of Second Person Queer, the companion to the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer, informs readers that the new volume is meant to be “a mirror of who you are, or perhaps the person ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

By Lt.-Col. John Conrad

What the Thunder Said, Lt.-Col. John Conrad’s account of his six-month tour in Kandahar, introduces us to new perspectives on the Canadian experience in Afghanistan, and contains the foundations of a better understanding of that ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

By Jeff Rubin

For more than 20 years, Jeff Rubin has been known as one of Canada’s top economists, and a major voice for the energy sector. In Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

One-Pot French: More than 100 Easy, Authentic Recipes

By Jean-Pierre Challet

Like her Food Network cooking show, French Food at Home, Laura Calder’s second cookbook, French Taste, is, in essence, a primer on basic Gallic cooking aimed at people who are intimidated by the kitchen. Detractors ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Where Am I? Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall

By Colin Ellard

A homing pigeon released hundreds of miles away from its roost can somehow find its way home. Take the average Canadian city dweller and put him or her in the middle of a dense forest, ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs

By Ian Tyson; Adeline Halvorson, illus.

La Primera is an attractive pairing of a song by Canadian folk-music legend Ian Tyson and a set of paintings by Saskatchewan-born Adeline Halvorson. Following the history of mustangs from 1493, when the first such ... Read More »

April 15, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Lord of the Sky

By Linda Zeman-Spaleny; Ludmila Zeman, illus.

This book is a family project that began life as a 1991 animated short film. First-time author Linda Zeman-Spaleny is the daughter of Ludmila Zeman and Eugen Spaleny, the directors, scriptwriters, and animators of the ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

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