The Secret Lives of Litterbugs and Other (True) Stories

In her eighth book, the prolific humourist M.A.C. Farrant takes us back to the days when cleaning out the car meant throwing everything out the window, drinking and driving was simply the way things were ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Reference

Beside Still Waters

By Barry Callaghan

In 1989, Barry Callaghan published The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings, the story of a Canadian war correspondent named Adam who treks deep into Africa, braving violence, privation, and infectious disease in order to ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination

By Karen Engle

Eight years on, with a new American administration in place, we can – and should – reconsider the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001, argues Karen Engle in this timely analysis of 9/11’s commemorative artworks and ... Read More »

April 20, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Soccer Sabotage

By Liam O’Donnell; Mike Deas, illus.

It used to be that there was a pretty strong dividing line between comic books and “real” books. When we were kids, books were revered, accepted as the only true means of developing language and ... Read More »

April 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Dracula Madness

By Mary Labatt; Jo Rioux, illus.

April 20, 2009

A World Full of Ghosts

By Charis Cotter; Marc Mongeau, illus.

Ghost books, along with animal books and dinosaur books, are always hot with young readers. A World Full of Ghosts brings spectral beings from around the world under one roof for what should be an ... Read More »

April 20, 2009

Canadian Sports

By Susan Hughes

Does every Canadian kid know we have two official national sports: lacrosse (summer) and hockey (winter)? Do they know lacrosse gets its name from the crozier (staff) carried by French bishops? Many kids know that ... Read More »

April 20, 2009

Just a Minute! Adventure in Time

By Jeff Szpirglas; Stephen MacEachern, illus.

Young people often have difficulty thinking about time in the relative sense. Just how long is a minute, or a week, or a month, anyway? In Just a Minute!, Toronto science writer and schoolteacher Jeff ... Read More »

April 20, 2009

Who Lives Here? Forest Animals

By Deborah Hodge; Pat Stephens, illus.

This is the fifth in the Kids Can Press Who Lives Here? series by author and former educational consultant Deborah Hodge. As in the other four books, Hodge familiarizes children with a selection of creatures ... Read More »

April 20, 2009

Working for Freedom: The Story of Josiah Henson

By Rona Arato

Josiah Henson was born a slave in Maryland in 1789. He watched his father get whipped, was sold three times, and was himself beaten for wanting to learn to read when he was nine. And ... Read More »

April 20, 2009

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