Kids’ Books

★ The Little Tree by the Sea: From Halifax to Boston With Love

The main character in this pitch-perfect book about the 1917 Halifax Explosion – by father-daughter team John and Belle DeMont – is a little tree perched high on the hill. Seeing two boats about to ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Middle Bear

By Manon Gauthier (ill.); Susanna Isern

Three new picture books champion life in the middle – be it the middle child in a seven-person family, a bear with an older and a younger brother, or a middle puzzle piece wondering where ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Jammie Day!

By Brooke Kerrigan (ill.); Carrie Snyder

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Where Oliver Fits

By Cale Atkinson

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Bad Mood and the Stick

By Lemony Snicket; Matthew Forsythe (ill.)

It all starts with a very grumpy girl named Curly, who finds a stick lying on the ground. Curly has the great misfortune of walking by an ice cream store without getting any ice cream ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Raftsmen

By Dmitry Bondarenko (ill.); Ryan Barnett

It’s hard to believe, amid the hype of our sesquicentennial, that there could be any tales of Canadian pluck and derring-do left to be unearthed and mythologized. And yet few people know (or remember) the ... Read More »

September 25, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Kingdom of No Worries

By Philip Roy

When a small island appears in the middle of a river running through their town, 12-year-old best friends Billy, Charlie, and Sami lay claim to it – and the Kingdom of No Worries is born. ... Read More »

September 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sit

By Deborah Ellis

Children, like dogs, are often told to “sit.” But in Deborah Ellis’s new collection of 11 short stories, the kids are much too rambunctious for that. In “The Glowing Chair,” Miyuki is a 12-year-old Japanese ... Read More »

September 18, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Spirited Away: Fairy Stories of Old Newfoundland

By Tom Dawe; Veselina Tomova (ill.)

In Newfoundland, fairies are dangerous. They steal babies, play wild music that forces people to dance till they drop, and lead travellers over cliffs to their deaths. Sometimes they spirit people away completely: heedless berry ... Read More »

September 14, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Night Garden

By Polly Horvath

Children’s literature abounds with magical gardens: from the walled plot that Mary Lennox coaxes back to life in The Secret Garden, to the setting for a time-travelling friendship in Tom’s Midnight Garden, to Oxford’s Botanic ... Read More »

September 12, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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