Canadian Sports

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

Bank Job

By James Heneghan and Norma Charles

Bank Job is the story (apparently based on a true one) of three teens who decide to rob banks in order to raise $10,000 – not for themselves, but to help out their foster parents. It’s ... Read More »

April 15, 2009

Wolf Pack of the Winisk River

By Paul Brown

It might be a tad cynical, but it’s all the same difficult to shake the impression that Wolf Pack of the Winisk River, the first book from Belleville, Ontario, author Paul Brown, was written to ... Read More »

April 15, 2009

Wanting Mor

By Rukhsana Khan

As strange and faraway a place as Afghanistan may be to most Canadian readers, in Rukhsana Khan’s contemporary story it has a fairy-tale familiarity – of the Grimm sort, not Disney. Like Cinderella, Wanting Mor’s ... Read More »

April 15, 2009

The Battle for Duncragglin

By Andrew H. Vanderwal

First-time author Andrew Vanderwal knows what the pre-teen set wants in their historical fiction: danger, action, camaraderie, and enough period detail to satisfy any future Jeopardy contestant’s appetite for trivia. The Battle for Duncragglin is ... Read More »

April 15, 2009

My Parents Are Sex Maniacs: A High School Horror Story

By Robyn Harding

Meet Louise Harrison, the smart, sensitive, big-boned hero of Vancouver author Robyn Harding’s first novel for teens, My Parents Are Sex Maniacs. Dreaming of being a famous fashion designer in New York City, Louise finds ... Read More »

April 15, 2009

La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs

By Ian Tyson; Adeline Halvorson, illus.

La Primera is an attractive pairing of a song by Canadian folk-music legend Ian Tyson and a set of paintings by Saskatchewan-born Adeline Halvorson. Following the history of mustangs from 1493, when the first such ... Read More »

April 15, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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