Newfoundland-born author Alice Walsh’s A Long Way from Home focuses on how three children are affected by 9/11. Rabia, Colin, and Leah’s lives become linked when a plane on its way to the U.S. is ... Read More »
September 11, 2012
When we meet 16-year-old Libby Thorne in Lisa Harrington’s second YA novel, she’s in a Halifax hospital, having just awoken from a 12-day coma caused by a fiery Halloween car crash. Suffering amnesia, Libby discovers ... Read More »
September 11, 2012
Two young men with an undiscovered yet important connection share narrative duties in Philip Roy’s latest historical novel for young readers. Jacques is a dreamy 15-year-old forced by his soldier father to leave France to ... Read More »
September 11, 2012
Dark Inside, Vacouver writer Jeyn Roberts’ debut, was an apocalyptic tale in which the beginning of the end of civilization was marked by a series of earthquakes hitting the West Coast of North America. Immediately ... Read More »
September 11, 2012
Right on schedule to commemorate the War of 1812’s bicentennial, A Call to Battle (the sixth book in Scholastic’s I Am Canada series) tells the tale of 13-year-old Alexander (Sandy) MacKay, who wants to fight ... Read More »
September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Ottawa native Jo Rioux is a talented and versatile artist whose illustrative work ranges from manga-inspired drawings to softer, more delicately rendered images. With the release of the first instalment in the Cat’s Cradle series ... Read More »
September 11, 2012
In The Lynching of Louie Sam, screenwriter Elizabeth Stewart tackles the daunting subject of the only recorded lynching to take place on Canadian soil. This is an engaging book that combines a strong mystery arc ... Read More »
September 11, 2012
To most North American children, being able to turn on a tap and have clean water come out is a given. The latest book from Alma Fullerton, with illustrations by Toronto author and artist Karen ... Read More »
September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books
Fox is bored and hungry, but he’s tired of eating big fat toads. So he gets a new cookbook, and finds that all the recipes call for “small toads, young and tender.” Accordingly, he goes ... Read More »
September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books
In her first picture book, Elin Kelsey – a Canadian scientist, author, and consultant based in California – brings her passion for ecology to a younger audience. From the opening statement, “You are stardust,” Kelsey ... Read More »
September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books
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