Down at the Sea Hotel

A dot-eyed pig in red tartan Bermuda shorts and suspenders is our guide through the surreal world of Down at the Sea Hotel, a song by Greg Brown that has morphed into a picture book ... Read More »

January 16, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Scholastic Canada Book of Hockey Lists

By Paul Romanuk

As any hockey fan knows, the game doesn’t end on the ice. Statistics, details, weird stories, and generally obscure trivia constitute a large part of any fan’s arsenal. Knowing which NHL player has won the ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Maggie and the Chocolate War

By Michelle Mulder

Children’s lit has long looked to chocolate for great drama. In The Chocolate Touch (1984), Patrick Catling explores the pros and cons of turning everything into candy. Alex Shearer’s witty Bootleg (2003) has youths profiting ... Read More »

January 15, 2008

Wild Ride: A Graphic Guide Adventure

By Liam O'Donnell; Mike Deas, illus.

Thanks to the efforts of people like Al Gore and David Suzuki, environmental issues are at the top of many youngsters’ minds these days. Add to that the huge popularity of graphic novels among young ... Read More »

January 15, 2008

Ben’s Bunny Trouble

By Daniel Wakeman; Dirk van Stralen, illus.

Children do not consider themselves cute. Of course, adults occasionally find them so, and only the most austere grown-up is immune from the awww moment. But that moment is no time to start writing a ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Little (Grrl) Lost

By Charles de Lint

In his new novel for younger readers, World Fantasy Award-winning author Charles de Lint creates an engaging contemporary story that blends fairy lore, literary allusion, and urban realism. The novel looks at the unlikely friendship ... Read More »

January 15, 2008

Stories at the Door

By Jan Andrews; Francis Blake, illus.

“What’s that at the door? It’s a story!/ A story, by gosh and by gum.” So begins this energetic collection of six retold folktales. As a storyteller, Jan Andrews is intimately acquainted with that traditional ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

A Perfect Gentle Knight

By Kit Pearson

Kit Pearson is back! Having garnered all the major prizes a Canadian children’s book author could hope for, she had dropped off the radar screen. After editing the impressive cross-country anthology of short stories This ... Read More »

January 15, 2008

How the Dead Dream

By Lydia Millet

The hero of novelist Lydia Millet’s latest moral fantasy is named Thomas, but his mother and almost everyone else call him “T.” He isn’t an Everyman, but he is a modern type, a young Californian ... Read More »

January 14, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

At a Loss for Words

By Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Schoemperlen is the author of one of the best collections of short stories ever published in Canada, 1998’s Forms of Devotion. Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in 1998, the book ... Read More »

January 7, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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