What My Father Gave Me: Daughters Speak

There are few relationships quite as fraught as the one between teenage daughters and their fathers. Even if Dad can’t relate, or is embarrassing, overprotective, or overly doting, a good father-daughter relationship will generally weather ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Ghost of Heroes Past

By Charles Reid

Despite having been born on Remembrance Day, teenager Johnny Anders shows zero interest in Canadian military history. That is, until he receives a series of nocturnal visits from a ghost-soldier who transports him through time ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Book of Trees

By Leanne Lieberman

It’s 1995, and Mia, a recent high school grad from Toronto, has arrived in Jerusalem to study at a Jewish seminary. Encouraged by her devout but sheltered friend Aviva, Mia has only recently taken an ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Avalanche Dance

By Ellen Schwartz

Everything about Avalanche Dance relates to essential conflicts: between children and parents, between friends, and between societal expectations and personal will. Veteran B.C. children’s author Ellen Schwartz walks these narrative tightropes with ease, rarely tilting ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Jackson Jones: The Tale of a Boy, an Elf, and a Very Stinky Fish

By Jenn Kelly; Ariane Elsammak, illus.

This adventurous debut from Ottawa author Jenn Kelly has a perfectly silly spirit that helps put across the admirable lesson learned by its young protagonist, a lonely, book-loving boy with far less self-confidence than he ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hunger Journeys

By Maggie de Vries

Hunger journeys were often made by the starving residents of Amsterdam into the countryside to search for food in the closing months of the Second World War. The hunger journey in Vancouver author Maggie de ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Kitten’s Autumn

By Eugenie Fernandes

Author-illustrator Eugenie Fernandes uses clay, acrylic paint, and mixed-media collage to create a visual feast in her second seasonal tale (following Kitten’s Spring) featuring a curious calico cat. Quality autumnal picture books that deal with ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ The Cat’s Pajamas

By Wallace Edwards

There are any number of kids’ books that are only ostensibly for kids, that in their tone or language or execution reveal themselves to be aimed at the kind of kid idealized by some adults, ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Counting on Snow

By Maxwell Newhouse

There is no escaping the fact that all counting books have an element of didacticism. But folk artist Maxwell Newhouse (The House That Max Built) makes the predictable task of getting from 10 to one ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

Canada Under Attack

By Jennifer Crump

To those who would argue that our history is boring, freelance journalist and author Jennifer Crump offers Canada Under Attack, part of Dundurn’s Canadians at War series. With crisp writing and a fast pace, Crump ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

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