Kids’ Books

The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union

The dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 was followed not by a sudden flowering of democracy, but by the seizure of political and economic power by former Communist apparatchiks. Opposition to the new regimes by ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

★ October

By Richard B. Wright

A critic once reacted to the comprehensiveness of the title of Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by asking, “Why write the book?” At the opposite end of the scale, the ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Please, Louise!

By Frieda Wishinsky; Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Louise is Jake’s little sister, and she is irrepressible. She dances into his room, plays with his toys, bounces on his bed, and never stops talking. As drawn by Marie-Louise Gay, winner of two Governor ... Read More »

July 16, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Making Bones Walk

By Alex Boyd

Making Bones Walk is the first full-length collection for Toronto poet Alex Boyd. It’s a promising debut, solid, trim, and occasionally arresting (especially “Twenty Three Minutes for Everything,” the one standout poem in the book), ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

High Speed Through Shoaling Water

By Tom Wayman

Political proselytizing has been something of a vocation for Calgary-based writer and teacher Tom Wayman since the publication of his first book in 1973. In High Speed Through Shoaling Water, his 17th collection, Wayman cleaves ... Read More »

July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

That Stripy Cat

By Norene Smiley; Tara Anderson, illus.

Written by Halifax author Norene Smiley, That Stripy Cat tells the story of a cat that seems difficult to love but still manages to find a home. At the Hummingbird Animal Shelter, the stripy cat ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Looking for Loons

By Jennifer Lloyd; Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus.

In a cottage by a lake, golden sunlight wakes a young boy named Patrick. Carefully reaching for his binoculars, he creeps out of the bedroom, telling his sister Emily he’s off to look for loons. ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cinderella

By Michele Marineau; Mylene Pratt, illus.

Does the world need another Cinderella? The tale has been retold for millennia, from China to Hollywood, from the Brothers Grimm to Roald Dahl. Something in the old classic of oppressed heroine and oppressing stepfamily ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mr. Gaugin’s Heart

By Marie-Danielle Croteau; Isabelle Arsenault, illus.; Susan Ouriou, trans.

In the whimsical picture-book biography Mr. Gauguin’s Heart, Québécoise writer Marie-Danielle Croteau tells how the young Paul Gauguin discovers painting after his father dies. While the family is travelling to Peru, Mr. Gauguin dies suddenly, ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting

By Hugh Brewster; John Singer Sargent, illus.

Between 1885 and 1887, renowned expat American painter John Singer Sargent crafted his most famous work. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, a study of two girls in a garden lighting paper lanterns, is brought to life ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

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