Kids’ Books

Farley Follows His Nose

By Lynn Johnston and Beth Cruikshank; Lynn Johnston, illus.

When we last saw Farley, the scruffily loveable and loveably scruffy sheepdog from Lynn Johnston’s beloved strip For Better or For Worse, he was, well, dead, having snuffed it while rescuing the Patterson family’s youngest ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dance Baby Dance

By Andrea Spalding

As its title suggests, the text of this board book for the very young is about dancing. In it, Baby is urged to dance – with sister, Teddy, friends, the sun and the moon, in ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Swim the Fly

By Don Calame

Reading like a cross between Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Karate Kid, Don Calame’s Swim the Fly finds nerdy 15-year-old Matt Gratton conspiring with his equally nerdy buddies, Cooper and Sean, to achieve ... Read More »

April 8, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Girl #3

By Nichole McGill

A tomboy-ish track-and-field star, 14-year-old Syd is a standard-issue, mildly confused suburban teenager, alienated from her divorced parents, extremely clever and wonderfully street-smart. Syd discovers she’s a serial killer’s intended third victim one morning when, ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Mealworm Diaries

By Anna Kerz

At the beginning of this debut novel from Toronto’s Anna Kerz, young Jeremy has just moved with his mother from rural Nova Scotia to Toronto after the death of his father. Details of that tragedy ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Earthgirl

By Jennifer Cowan

Earthgirl is smart, funny, attuned to the times, and completely appropriate for its intended audience. Veteran TV writer Jennifer Cowan has spent the past 20 years writing for such angsty teen shows as Ready or ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Puppet

By Eva Wiseman

Eva Wiseman’s dark but hopeful YA novels have explored the terrible legacy of the Holocaust in Hungary, the country of her birth. With Puppet, she takes readers to an earlier period in Hungary’s troubled history ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Listening

By Margaret Avison

It’s been almost two years since Margaret Avison, one of Canada’s most significant poets, died. Now that her “last poems” have been published, we can stop wondering what she left on her desk. Books of ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Hurry Up, Nicholas!

By Gilles Tibo; Bruno St-Aubin, illus.; Petra Johansonn, trans.

The powerhouse Quebec-based duo of writer Gilles Tibo and illustrator Bruno St-Aubin team up here for the third in their Nicholas series, aimed at the early elementary set. Previously, in Too Many Books!, Nicholas had ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Getting There

By Marla Stewart Konrad

Getting There and Mom and Me are the first two entries in the World Vision Early Reader series. (Grand and I Like to Play are promised.) Both are filled with full-colour images from photographers around ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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