Kids’ Books

If Angels Fall

Ottawa-based journalist Rick Mofina has produced a debut thriller that isn’t exactly thrilling, but charges ahead anyway, until the reader gives in to its anguished momentum. The plot concerns a spate of child kidnappings in ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Ice Lake

By John Farrow

Ever since his now infamous 1989 Harper’s manifesto on the state of contemporary American literature, Tom Wolfe has been hammering away at his thesis that today’s writers are too caught up in the tedious psychological ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Amuse Bouche: A Russell Quant Mystery

By Anthony Bidulka

Saskatoon private investigator Russell Quant spent his first year in business finding more than his fair share of wayward kitties and truant Corning Ware casserole dishes. But now he’s been hired by wealthy businessman Harold ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Skating Pond

By Deborah Jay Corey

The Skating Pond is the second novel from Canadian writer Deborah Jay Corey, now settled in an American coastal village. Her first novel, Losing Eddie, was awarded the WH Smith/Books In Canada First Novel Award. ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Cinnamon Gardens

By Shyam Selvadurai

Is there a greater compliment a reader can pay a novel (and by extension, the novelist) than to say, “I was sorry when life interfered and I had to put it down, and I couldn’t ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Blood of Others

By Rick Mofina

Blood of Others is the latest gory thriller by Ottawa-based journalist Rick Mofina, who broke into the mystery/crime genre a few years ago with the bestseller If Angels Fall. His first two taut, intelligently written ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Sweeter than All the World

By Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe’s status as an important Canadian fiction writer is, to put it politely, puzzling. He has won two Governor General’s Awards (for The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973 and A Discovery of Strangers ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Each One Special

By Frieda Wishinsky, H. Werner Zimmermann, illus.

Harry the cake decorator makes “marzipan toes on twirling ballerinas…and caramel trains chugging down chocolate tracks,” to the delight of his customers and his after-school friend, Ben. When new owners demand “young bakers, not old,” ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pirate Pearl

By Phoebe Gilman

When Captain Plunk recovers a floating treasure chest from a ship that has just been sunk, he and his rascally crew are astonished and dismayed to find that it contains not precious pearls but Precious ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dreams Are More Real than Bathtubs

By Susan Musgrave, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Many families treasure the precocious sayings of their very young, later bringing them out on public occasions to the chagrin of the original speaker. Poets’ families no doubt accumulate better bon mots than most; thus ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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