★ Death Was in the Picture

Imagine that Sam Spade’s secretary had to solve the mystery of the Maltese Falcon because Spade was too drunk to leave the office and you have the basic conceit of B.C. author Linda L. Richards’ ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha

By Andrea Gunraj

Andrea Gunraj has written a sparkling first novel – part of Knopf Canada’s New Face of Fiction series – about a Caribbean family riven by economic hardship, fatherlessness, and fierce sibling rivalry. The titular Seetha ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Walk Through a Window

By KC Dyer

“Educational time travel” describes this story of a girl’s summer sojourn in Charlottetown, P.E.I. When her parents decide to renovate their Toronto house, Darby is sent to hang out with unfamiliar grandparents. There she has ... Read More »

February 17, 2009

Fishing for Bacon

By Michael Davie

The “Bacon” in the title of this enjoyable comic debut from Calgary author Michael Davie is Bacon Sobelowski, an unprepossessing young man just out of high school and wondering what to do with his life. ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood Upon Our Land: The North West Resistance Diary of Josephine Bouvier

By Maxine Trottier

For years, Canadian educators have struggled to interest young people in Canadian history. The Dear Canada series has mastered the trick, and proves it again with its 23rd volume. Blood Upon Our Land tackles the ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Cracked Up to Be

By Courtney Summers

Until her senior year of high school, Parker Fadley was teen royalty: cheerleading team captain, academic all-star, pretty, perfect. Now, she’s heading for social bottomfeeder status – and through the liberal use of icy insults, ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Penelope and the Preposterous Birthday Party

By Sheri Radford; Christine Tripp, illus.

This third Penelope book by author-illustrator duo Sheri Radford and Christine Tripp catches up with the exuberant and capricious girl on the day of her birthday party. All three Penelope titles involve a familiar childhood ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Stripmalling

By Jon Paul Fiorentino; Evan Munday, illus.

Stripmalling is both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. The hero, Jonny, is a 31-year-old aspiring writer and instructor at a “mildly respectable university” in ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Wizard in Love

By Mireille Levert; Marie Lafrance, illus.;

Kids are often thought to be better than adults at dealing with grief, but that doesn’t mean it’s ever easy. Two works by celebrated Montreal author and illustrator Mireille Levert explore the cycle of loss ... Read More »

February 12, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

My Great Big Mamma

By Olivier Ka; Luc Melanson, illus.; Helen Mixter, trans.

In an era in which everyone seems obsessed with diets and fitness schemes, this picture book weighs in on the side of the pleasantly portly. Lebanese-French author Olivier Ka writes from the perspective of a ... Read More »

February 12, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

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