Sometimes when I can’t find a book in a local bookstore I shop through Amazon. (Mea culpa, independent booksellers.) This means that Amazon has a virtual portrait of me as a reader that they use ... Read More »
March 16, 2009
The first question author Allan Peterkin asks in his new book is, “What kind of moron would write a book about fridge art?” The real question is: who would want to read it? Hands-on, creative ... Read More »
March 16, 2009
Carolyn Matthews has written two books for adults about rescues on sea and land, so she is very familiar with the topic. In her new book for young adults, she introduces readers to 22 men ... Read More »
March 16, 2009
Helaine Becker, author of Boredom Blasters and more, turns her attention here to a topic kids love: creepy, crawly bugs of all shapes and sizes. The Insecto-files is jammed with interesting facts presented in kid-friendly ... Read More »
March 16, 2009
A tomboy-ish track-and-field star, 14-year-old Syd is a standard-issue, mildly confused suburban teenager, alienated from her divorced parents, extremely clever and wonderfully street-smart. Syd discovers she’s a serial killer’s intended third victim one morning when, ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
At the beginning of this debut novel from Toronto’s Anna Kerz, young Jeremy has just moved with his mother from rural Nova Scotia to Toronto after the death of his father. Details of that tragedy ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Earthgirl is smart, funny, attuned to the times, and completely appropriate for its intended audience. Veteran TV writer Jennifer Cowan has spent the past 20 years writing for such angsty teen shows as Ready or ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Eva Wiseman’s dark but hopeful YA novels have explored the terrible legacy of the Holocaust in Hungary, the country of her birth. With Puppet, she takes readers to an earlier period in Hungary’s troubled history ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
It’s been almost two years since Margaret Avison, one of Canada’s most significant poets, died. Now that her “last poems” have been published, we can stop wondering what she left on her desk. Books of ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
The powerhouse Quebec-based duo of writer Gilles Tibo and illustrator Bruno St-Aubin team up here for the third in their Nicholas series, aimed at the early elementary set. Previously, in Too Many Books!, Nicholas had ... Read More »
March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
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