Forget cutting class and mouthing off: for a kid who doesn’t fit in, just surviving high school may be the gutsiest act of all. Still struggling with her family’s move from the city to the ... Read More »
September 25, 2009
Given that he has penned more than 60 books since his YA novel debut in 1993, Eric Walters knows a few things about narrative structure, enough to know when – and how much – to ... Read More »
September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Boney, Itchy, and Squeak are best friends, drawn together by their status as misfits and their proximity as neighbours. They also share a tree house, situated in Boney’s backyard, where they meet to eat crackers ... Read More »
September 25, 2009
Ray Robertson has experimented with recent history in his fiction, chronicling the waning of Kerouac and the Beat dream in What Happened Later and examining the kaleidoscope of the late 1960s country-hippie milieu in Moody ... Read More »
September 21, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Lesley Choyce, the prolific Nova Scotia author and publisher of Pottersfield Press, offers a meditation on life that focuses on the natural landscape around his home – a meditation prompted by an unidentified personal crisis. ... Read More »
September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The title of Mélanie Watt’s newest picture book pretty much says it all. Have I Got a Book for You! is a self-reflexive and broadly comic parody of self-promotion that invites its young readers to ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
It’s a pleasure to see another book about Stella, Marie-Louise Gay’s indomitable heroine with curly red hair and joie de vivre to match. In this eighth book of the series, Gay has lost none of ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Luca has an active imagination – especially at night, when he should be sleeping. Everyday objects in his bedroom suggest multiple adventures, and all he has to do is whisper, “Moonlight, Starlight, Twilight, Night Flight!” ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
James Laxer’s Democracy, the latest in the Groundwood Guide series, begins with a statement that may surprise young readers: “In the West, citizens assume that they live in a democracy.” He then lists some of ... Read More »
August 31, 2009
In this thought-provoking compilation, prolific author Eric Walters takes a unique approach to exploring how young people can make a difference in the world. His imaginary stand-in, a curious child named Jo, asks how people ... Read More »
August 31, 2009
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