Camilla Chameleon

By Colleen Sydor; Pascale Constantin, illus.

Camilla McNilly disappears every Saturday at suppertime when it’s liver and onions night in the McNilly household. Her schoolmates envy her unsurpassed hide-and-seek skills and how Camilla can read a comic book in class with ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Mixed Beasts

By Kenyon Cox; Wallace Edwards, illus.

Zoologist Julius Duckworth O’Hare presents, in this delicious volume, an illustrated field guide to some of the most bizarre creatures on the globe. Here we meet fantastic beasts such as the Octopussycat, whose tentacles can ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Lake Rules

By Maureen Garvie

Like a perfect summer at the cottage, Maureen Garvie’s Lake Rules is full of good books, messing around in boats, and the occasional hike into town for added excitement and adventure.Thirteen-year-old Leia Greenway is almost ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Fantastic Companions

By Julie E. Czerneda, ed.

The use of animal companions in fantasy writing is a difficult balancing act: walking the line between coy anthropomorphism (with its risk of sentimentality) and sage-like omnipotence is a feat for even the most seasoned ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

By Shyam Selvadurai

In the 20 years of my adult book discussion group at the library, one title stands out for the sheer delight it occasioned us all – Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje’s outrageous Sri Lankan ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach

By Barbara Nickel

Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins is the link in this absorbing novel, in which music reaches across the centuries to connect two girls – a modern 12-year-old recently transplanted to Saskatchewan and the daughter of ... Read More »

August 22, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Eddie Longpants

By Mireille Levert

There’s always a breeze in a Marie-Louise Gay picture book – a zephyr, a gust, a balmy caress, or an outright gale – so that the natural world seems to jig and thrum with sheer ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Caramba

By Marie-Louise Gay

There’s always a breeze in a Marie-Louise Gay picture book – a zephyr, a gust, a balmy caress, or an outright gale – so that the natural world seems to jig and thrum with sheer ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Red Sash

By Jean E. Pendziwol; Nicolas Debon, illus.

The writer and illustrator behind Dawn Watch, a picture book about a contemporary father-daughter sailboat outing on Lake Superior, are back with another adventure on the lake. This time it’s a historical one – it ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Shi-shi-etko

By Nicola I. Campbell; Kim LaFave, illus.

This story spans three idyllic days before a truck arrives to take Shi-shi-etko (whose name means “she who loves to play in the water”) to residential school. As depicted, Shi-shi-etko is, at most, six or ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

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