Me & Death: An Afterlife Adventure

When 14-year-old Jim dashes onto a busy Toronto street in hot pursuit of Lloyd, his favourite whipping boy, he’s sure he’s got the situation in hand. After all, the whole west end neighbourhood is terrified ... Read More »

March 15, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders

By Kevin Sylvester

With cooking shows proliferating on TV, and with the 2007 hit movie Ratatouille (about a rat that loves to cook), it was probably inevitable that someone would take a stab at creating the sort of ... Read More »

March 15, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Stolen Child

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, known for her previous YA novels about the Armenian genocide and the 1930s Ukranian famine, takes on the Nazis’ notorious obsession with racial purity in her new novel for middle-grade readers. It ... Read More »

March 10, 2010

The Midnight Curse

By L.M. Falcone

When 11-year-old twins Charlie and Lacey travel to England to learn about the inheritance left to them by their reclusive great-uncle, they have no idea it will involve ghosts and a potentially fatal curse. (Perhaps ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Industry news

On My Walk

By Kari-Lynn Winters; Christina Leist, illus.

A young, curly-haired kid in overalls heads out for a summer walk with his rambunctious dog and pregnant mom. (It’s not enirely clear whether the kid is a boy or a girl, but “boy” seems ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Red Scarf

By Anne Villeneuve

It’s a wonder it took 10 years for Anne Villeneuve’s l’Écharpe rouge to be translated. As a Governor General’s award winner, it should be a prime candidate for an English readership. Besides, there is only ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Penalty Killing

By Michael McKinley

Fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs will find much to relate to in Michael McKinley’s debut sports mystery. The Continental Hockey League stands in for the NHL and the hapless New York St. Patricks are ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Piece by Piece: Stories About Fitting Into Canada

By Teresa Toten, ed.

“Immigrants,” writes editor Teresa Toten in her excellent introduction to this collection of essays and memoirs, “are so often hyper-aware, hyper-alert to their surroundings. We are alive to every potential snub or slur. We can ... Read More »

March 3, 2010

Never More There

By Stephen Rowe

Never More There is Newfoundland-based school teacher Stephen Rowe’s first collection of poems. In many ways, it is a typical debut, featuring poems of family history, quotidian observations, formal experiments, and nods to literary models ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Wait Until Late Afternoon

By David Bateman and Hiromi Goto

Like conceptual artwork, Wait Until Late Afternoon, a book-length poem in two voices, requires some contextual explanation before its intent and effect can be fully appreciated. In what amounts to an artist’s statement printed on ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

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