For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

Despite endless new techno-entertainments that siphon off young people’s creative juices, the urge to write more than text messages miraculously persists. Teachers, librarians, and parents recognizing symptoms of that itch in students and offspring can ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The Feathered Cloak: The Trilogy of the Tree, Part 1

By Sean Dixon

Our epic tale begins in the year 933. Two kings – Erik Blood-Axe and Haakon the Good, brothers who were separated at birth – are competing to be rightful leader of the great frozen nation ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane

By Polly Horvath

How can you go on living after a devastating personal loss? The teenage heroines of Polly Horvath’s latest YA offering think they know: find some discarded airplane parts, put them together, and simply fly away. ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

The Alchemist’s Dream

By John Wilson

This impressive new historical novel by Vancouver Island-based writer John Wilson charts the adventures of Robert Bylot, a 17th-century English explorer who accompanied Henry Hudson on his last voyage. The alchemist of the title is ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Lady Ginny’s Tea Parties

By Susan Rennick Jolliffe

This whimsical book by Ottawa illustrator Susan Rennick Jolliffe is set up as the scrapbook of Lady Ginny, a very fashionable poodle who takes it upon herself to orchestrate a year’s worth of tea parties ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Bumblebee Sweater

By Betty Waterton; Kim LaFave, illus.

Betty Waterton, author of such beloved books as A Salmon for Simon and the Quincy Rumpel series, will delight children again with this droll story, jauntily illustrated by the playful, prolific Kim LaFave. A gift ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Elijah of Buxton

By Christopher Paul Curtis

The path of contemporary children’s literature is strewn with worthy novels intended to teach and preach that mostly fail to ignite any response. Great and tragic events – such as war, famine, or genocide – ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Hanna Bear’s Christmas

By Monica Devine; Sean Cassidy, illus.

Quite the opposite approach [to nostalgia] is taken by Alaskan writer Monica Devine (Carry Me, Mama; The Iditarod) in Hanna Bear’s Christmas, the vividly illustrated plot-driven story of an anthropomorphic bear who requests that her ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Star for Christmas

By Trisha Romance

Autumn customarily brings an onslaught of sparkle-bound holiday books destined for children everywhere. Many are craftily created to counterbalance our culture’s increasingly aggressive consumer marketing, by reminding young people of the spirit and meaning of ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling Through Inuit Art

By Shelley Falconer and Shawna White

Stones, Bones and Stitches is a handsome new volume in Tundra’s Lord Museum Book series (which consists of books built around specific museums’ holdings). This installment, written by Shelley Falconer, senior curator at the McMichael ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

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