Green Careers: You Can Make Money AND Save the Planet

Green Careers grew out of an article Jennifer Power Scott wrote for Canadian Living magazine about young people in environmentally friendly jobs. The book expands on that theme, offering close to 40 interviews with young ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Monster Fliers: From the Time of the Dinosaurs

By Elizabeth MacLeod; John Bindon; illus.

Books about prehistoric life fill bookstores and libraries, and every year new volumes appear. With that in mind, it’s no mean feat to create a dinosaur-themed book that can stand with the ones already out ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

50 Burning Questions: A Sizzling History of Fire

By Tanya Lloyd Kyi; Ross Kinnaird, illus.

If fire were a person, you could say he had an “image problem.” After all, we usually hear about fire on the news as a destructive force, something causing property damage and occasionally killing people. ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Sail Away with Me: Old and New Poems (ages 3-6)

By Jane Collins-Philippe; Laura Beingessner, illus.

Sail Away with Me collects two dozen sea-themed poems, divided almost evenly between some well-known favourites (and lesser-known discoveries) and original poems by former Torontonian Jane Collins-Philippe (who, according to her bio, now spends half ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

The Archaeolojesters

By Andreas Oertel

Twelve-year-old Cody and his best friend Eric are spending a typically drowsy summer in Sultana, Manitoba, when the unthinkable happens. With the local MacFie River almost dry because of an extended drought, the business owners ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Hearts at Stake

By Alyxandra Harvey

Stalked by throngs of fanged bachelors and hunted by a bloodthirsty queen, Solange Drake is bracing herself for a seriously sour 16th birthday. In Alyxandra Harvey’s sassy and action-packed novel – the first instalment of ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Folly

By Marthe Jocelyn

In British historical fiction, the most exciting action typically occurs in one of three places: the scullery, the orphanage, or the industrial factory. Recent Vicky Metcalf Award-winner Marthe Jocelyn skilfully employs the first two settings ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

★ The Vinyl Princess

By Yvonne Prinz

Sixteen-year-old Allie is an analog kid in a digital world. With a part-time job at Bob & Bob Records in Berkeley, California, and a new blog and ’zine under the nom de guerre The Vinyl ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Which Way?

By Marthe Jocelyn; Tom Slaughter, illus.

Although aimed at the very young, this new picture book from Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter is not simplistic. The questions it poses in short, internally rhyming sentences (“How do we know which way to ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

How Do You Read to a Rabbit?

By Andrea Wayne von Konigslow

This cheerful picture book by Toronto author/illustrator Andrea Wayne von Konigslow plays with the characteristics of various animals and the imagined difficulties of trying to read to them. In each spread a little girl is ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

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