★ Moon at Nine

With her multiple award-winning works of fiction and non-fiction, Deborah Ellis has introduced readers to the harsh realities of life for youth around the world. Her latest novel, based on a true story, is another ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim

By E.K. Johnston

Dragons inhabit myriad literary homes, from high-fantasy epics to classic children’s stories. But have they ever been associated with the origin of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?” Or the fires of Kuwait? ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Best Friend Trouble

By Frances Itani; Geneviève Després, illus.

Most of the time, Hanna and Lizzy are best friends, but sometimes they get on each other’s nerves. One day while playing, Lizzy throws a ball over a fence and goads Hanna to do the ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Fish Named Glub

By Dan Bar-el; Josée Bisaillon, illus.

Author Dan Bar-el and illustrator Josée Bisaillon team up to tell an ambitious story about a tiny fish named Glub who has a big impact on the lives of those around him. Glub spends his ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Tweedles Go Electric

By Monica Kulling; Marie Lafrance, illus.

It’s the turn of the 20th century and the Tweedle family is casting off its reputation as “fuddy-duddies” by buying an automobile. Mama and son Francis respond to the prospect with zeal, but daughter Frances’s ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Whoosh! A Watery World of Wonderful Creatures

By Marilyn Baillie; Susan Mitchell

In this delightful picture book, celebrated author Marilyn Baillie adroitly combines children’s love of playing in water with their fascination for learning about animals. Baillie, the former editor of chickaDEE magazine, once taught science at ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Picture Books

I Was There the Night He Died

By Ray Robertson

Following 2011’s Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live, which was nominated for the inaugural Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction, Ray Robertson returns with a novel that considers themes of death, loss, and self-harm, ... Read More »

March 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Complicity

By Adam Sol

To read poetry is to be implicated in the scandal of its creation. The poet writes lines, directs the movement, but it’s the reader’s imagination that resolves the poem. This is readily apparent in these ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Writing with Grace: A Journey beyond Down Syndrome

By Judy McFarlane

In Writing with Grace, Vancouver’s Judy McFarlane addresses issues of intellectual disability and what it means to be a writer. Although the young woman McFarlane mentors self-identifies as Cinderella-Princess-Grace, the rest of the world is ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood

By Kerry Clare, ed.

“Mom” is such a loaded word. Girls grow up absorbing, as if by osmosis, the mother-child relationships around them; then, suddenly, it’s their turn to enter motherhood (or not, as the case may be). I ... Read More »

March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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