Kids’ Books

Miranda and Maude: The Princess and the Absolutely Not a Princess

By Emma Wunsch; Jessika von Innerebner (ill.)

Going for mass-market appeal, three new middle-grade series, respectively, stake claim in the gross-out genre, borrow heavily from another international bestselling series, and woo the lucrative Disney princess–loving crowd. Scholastic Canada has brought together veteran ... Read More »

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Billy Stuart and the Zintrepids

By Alain M. Bergeron; Sampar (ill.); Sophie B. Watson (trans.)

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Infinite Blue

By Darren Groth; Simon Groth

Water imagery abounds in Darren and Simon Groth’s Infinite Blue. The two brothers, writing as a team, weave a neighbourhood flood, an important bathtub chat, and a dripping shower into a story that sees water ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Tree Musketeers

By Norma Charles

Tree Musketeers, a middle-grade novel by accomplished West Coast writer Norma Charles (Runner: Harry Jerome, World’s Fastest Man), is a universal fish-out-of-water story. Jeanie is new at school, having just moved to Van City from ... Read More »

September 7, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Learning to Breathe

By Janice Lynn Mather

In her debut young-adult novel, Janice Lynn Mather introduces readers to Indira May Ferguson – Indy for short – who’s leaving the Bahamian village of Mariner’s Cay to live with her uncle, aunt, and cousin ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Almost Invisible

By Maureen Garvie

There are plenty of children’s books that explore the fantasy of living in a public space – for example, Corduroy, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, or The Invention of Hugo Cabret. ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Threads

By Torill Kove

Separation is the first anxiety most of us experience; infants feel it even when their parent is in the same room. Whether it be the first day of school, a breakup, or even a death, ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

I’m Glad That You’re Happy

By Nahid Kazemi

Separation is the first anxiety most of us experience; infants feel it even when their parent is in the same room. Whether it be the first day of school, a breakup, or even a death, ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Sleep, Sheep!

By Guillaume Perreault (ill.); Kerry Lyn Sparrow

Duncan is a master of endless delays, at least when it comes to sleeping. While he relishes the routine leading up to bedtime – the snacks, the taste of bubble-gum toothpaste – sleeping itself is ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Go Show the World

By Joe Morse (ill.); Wab Kinew

Wab Kinew – a high-profile politician, honourary witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and hip-hop musician – has turned his attention to picture books with Go Show the World, which is built around the ... Read More »

September 5, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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