The Waldman family – Mom and Dad, eight-year-old Karen, and 12-year-old narrator Mark – move to the area outside of Chilliwack, B.C., for Dad’s new job. They purchase a rundown house on the outskirts of ... Read More »
October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Times are tough in the once thriving coastal fishing village of Port Angus, where the fish supply has suddenly dried up. Enter Dalen and Gole, a pair of adventure-seeking young aliens from the planet Budap, ... Read More »
October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
As a straight-ahead murder mystery, True Blue represents a departure for author Deborah Ellis, who is known for her many stellar YA novels focusing on the lives of immigrant and refugee teens. Long-time best friends ... Read More »
October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Following her mother’s death, 12-year-old Robin finds her family transplanted from Winnipeg to her grandmother’s rural home in Ontario’s cottage country. While Robin’s father continues working as a veterinarian and her teenaged sister and young ... Read More »
October 19, 2011
Courtney Maika was just 17 when she wrote A Forest of Gold, but the talented young author has created a winning character in Emily Pattersen, a 12-year-old schoolgirl living in the Northern Ontario town of ... Read More »
October 19, 2011
Grandpa’s Girls follows a group of four cheerful Interior Salish cousins let loose on their grandfather’s sprawling B.C. farm. The book is not a traditional narrative so much as a play-by-play of a random, rambling ... Read More »
October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books
Author, illustrator, and former toy designer Andrea Beck returns with a third tale about pampered poodle Pierre and his imaginary daredevil alter ego, Pierre Le Poof. Champion show-poodle Pierre visits Paris for an important competition, ... Read More »
October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books
It’s fitting that New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik’s series of Massey Lectures begins with a quotation from Northrop Frye, as Frye’s influence can be felt throughout this wide-ranging cultural examination of the most archetypically ... Read More »
October 17, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
Margaret Atwood, arguably Canada’s most beloved author, has faced criticism for the distinction she makes, both in relation to her own work and that of others, between “science fiction” and “speculative fiction,” appearing to elevate ... Read More »
October 11, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
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