February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
How to lure children from picture books into chapter books – those with fewer illustrations and more text –- is a tricky task and surely an important one for creating new generations of readers. As ... Read More »
Ever since veteran hockey writer Roy MacGregor published his first book about a fictional team of young hockey players back in 1995, young readers have been following the exploits of the Screech Owls with fascination.Until ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Best known for the novel Slash and the poetry collection Breath Tracks, Okanagan writer Jeannette Armstrong combines genres in her new novel to bring readers into the world of Penny Jackson, a painter, activist, and ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Just for Comfort is a Canadian counter-culture road movie set to the page: Goin’ Down the Road meets Thelma and Louise. First-time novelist Ralph Osborne has written a gentle, comic tale of addiction and violence ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Imagine that you’re Lindy Hammond, a 63-year-old single woman in a depressed rural hamlet, looking after a wandering, 90-year-old aunt and running a seedy convenience store: what are your chances of finally finding love and ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Veteran storyteller Jan Andrews, author of the Canadian storytelling classics Very Last First Time and The Auction, has taken a true Depression-era story and moulded it into a tiny literary gem. Pa’s Harvest feels just ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
This new picture book from the popular team of Hutchins and Ohi is a characteristically gentle and humorous story exploring the concepts of direction and size and the experience of disorientation – all topics of ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The Magnificent Piano Recital, a gentle story filled with feminine touches, marks an about-face from The Prairie Fire, last year’s action-packed “boy story” by Marilynn Reynolds. Yet the protagonists of both books yearn for the ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Every night for six nights, as a witch walks down the road, something lurks behind her in the shadows, and each night she scares it away. On Sunday night, when the witch reaches her house, ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Inspired by Inuit folklore, Bushey’s third picture book tells the story of a young girl confronted with her own ambitions and the supernatural. Orphaned Pani goes fishing with her grandmother, who gives her a small ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books