Apologize, Apologize!

There’s a scattered, unsettling feeling to journalist and magazine editor Elizabeth Kelly’s first novel. Maybe it’s the seemingly endless jumble of canines constantly getting underfoot. Maybe it’s the way the narrator, Collie Flanagan, darts like ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Extraordinary Event of Pia H.

By Nicola Vulpe

The Extraordinary Event of Pia H. is superficially a tale of a wife gone missing from a Spanish plaza – miraculously vanished into thin air, if two elderly doñas are to be believed – and ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Careless Moment

By Dave Hugelschaffer

When fighting wildfires, one moment can lead to tragedy. When arson enters the equation, tragedy can turn into murder. One Careless Moment is the second of Dave Hugelschaffer’s Porter Cassel mysteries. As the novel opens, ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Come, Thou Tortoise

By Jessica Grant

Jessica Grant’s debut novel is one of those rare books that manage to entwine humour – in this case, even outright silliness – with poignant insight and a captivating plot. Lost soul Audrey Flowers is living ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

By Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver

At a moment in history when longstanding capitalist beliefs about the ability of the free market to self-adjust are being cast into doubt, Montreal-based authors Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver’s new book could not ... Read More »

January 12, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Castle on Deadman’s Island

By Curtis Parkinson

Kingsport, Nova Scotia’s Major Tripe was a noted prankster, but no one laughed at his final joke – bequeathing his castle on the St. Lawrence River to his closest friends, all of whom despised one ... Read More »

January 5, 2009

Ship of Lost Souls

By Rachelle Delaney

A pirate ship, a treasure map, and a crew of orphans: how could even the most reluctant young reader resist such a premise? In her first novel, author Rachelle Delaney, a graduate of the MFA ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Same Same

By Marthe Jocelyn; Tom Slaughter, illus.

The previous collaborations between Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter were elegant books that broke concepts of size or quantity down to their essence. Spare in text and image almost to the point of being like ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Big and Small, Room for All

By Jo Ellen Bogart; Gillian Newland, illus.

Big and Small, Room for All is the first children’s book Toronto’s Gillian Newland has illustrated. Let’s all hope she decides to stick around. Her gorgeous watercolours add immeasurably to the sense of wonder and ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Oh, Canada!

By Per-Henrik Gürth

Oh, Canada! is the fourth installment in Kids Can’s series of picture books on Canada aimed at early readers, and the second one both written and illustrated by Per-Henrik Gürth (the first two were written ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

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