Kids’ Books

A Big Surprise for Little Card

By Charise Mericle Harper; Anna Raff (illus.)

Budding bibliophiles will find much to enjoy in two new picture books that celebrate the joys of reading. These love songs to literacy each have their own stylish flair, from a bubbly let’s-get-this-party-started jig to ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances

By Elizabeth MacLeod

In her latest book for middle-graders, prolific non-fiction author Elizabeth MacLeod presents six stories about mysterious disappearances in chronological order, starting with the 17th-century North Carolina settlement of Roanoke Island, and ending with a 1990 ... Read More »

February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community

By Robin Stevenson

In her first work of non-fiction, YA novelist Robin Stevenson uses the gay pride parade as a focus to present middle-grade readers with some background to the huge shift in Canadian social dynamics over the ... Read More »

February 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Hill

By Karen Bass

Alberta-based Geoffrey Bilson Award–winning author Karen Bass draws on the Cree legend of the Wîhtiko for her latest YA novel, which blends adventure, horror, and some good old-fashioned coming-of-age wisdom. En route to spend the ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The White Cat and the Monk

By Jo Ellen Bogart; Sydney Smith (illus.)

If ever there was a book that could calm a child and draw her into meditative contemplation (perhaps right before bed?), The White Cat and the Monk is it. Guelph, Ontario–based author Jo Ellen Bogart ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Finding Hope

By Colleen Nelson

Cerebral, straight-laced 15-year-old Hope Randall is eager to leave her small town of Lumsville and escape her apathetic parents and 18-year-old meth-addicted brother, Eric. Once the town’s star hockey player and bound for the NHL, ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Movers

By Meaghan McIsaac

Toronto author Meaghan McIsaac sets her novel in a near-future dystopia in which the world is dying as a result of pollution and overpopulation. The story centres around a boy named Pat. A “Mover,” Pat ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Skeleton Tree

By Iain Lawrence

Iain Lawrence knows a thing or two about adventure in the wilderness: he’s been a logger, a firefighter, and a fish farmer, among other things. The author brings the full force of this experience to ... Read More »

February 5, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Exit, Pursued by a Bear

By E.K. Johnston

At a party celebrating the end of cheerleading camp, Hermione Winters – likable, great student, loyal friend, and captain of her school’s cheer squad – is drugged and raped. Remembering nothing of the attack, she ... Read More »

February 2, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Spare Dog Parts

By Alison Hughes; Ashley Spires (illus.)

Dogs and picture books might be the most ideal pairing of subject and artistic form. Even film cannot fully capture the twitch of an eyebrow, the slow thump of a tail that crescendos to pure ... Read More »

January 25, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

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