This Is My Planet: The Kid’s Guide to Global Warming

This Is My Planet, by Ontario naturalist and author Jan Thornhill, is the literary equivalent of a shout. The dramatic colours and design of the book will certainly grab a kid’s attention, which is something ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Cheetah Cubs and Beetle Grubs: The Wacky Way We Name Young Animals

By Diane Swanson; Mariko Ando-Spencer, illus.

Author Diane Swanson’s approach to informing readers about the names of young animals is unique. In addition to clearly stating the terms people use when referring to specific baby animals (for example, “young mosquitoes are ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

King of the Lost and Found

By John Lekich

John Lekich returns to the outsider theme of his The Loser’s Club (which garnered a 2002 Governor General’s Award nomination) with a new loser and an equally eccentric plot. In addition to being geeky and ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

A Forest for Christmas

By Michael Harris; Eric Orchard, illus.

For Emily, there’s no place better than the Friendly Forest, where she hosts woodland animals in her tree house and talks to the spruce trees. No wonder she feels panicky when, shortly before Christmas, she ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Very Serious Children

By Caroline Adderson; Joe Weissman, illus.

If you can’t get rid of the adults in a children’s book, the next best thing is to turn them into goofs. From the schlemiel in folklore to Harry Allard’s The Stupids, from Amelia Bedelia ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Be A Baby

By Sarah Withrow; Manuel Monroy, illus.

In this first picture book by Ontario YA author Sarah Withrow (author of Bat Summer, The Black Sunshine of Goody Pryne, and others), sweet and goofy couplets capture the loving wordplay that parents enjoy with ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Tin Angel

By Shannon Cowan

$&Shannon Cowan has two adult books to her credit, but Tin Angel marks her debut as a young adult writer. And what a debut. From its short prologue through to the final paragraph, readers will ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

By Bret Hart

In the end, it doesn’t really matter if pro wrestling is fake or not. Because, as is made clear from Bret “Hitman” Hart’s autobiography, the athleticism required to execute wrestling’s pre-scripted entertainment is real – ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Glass Voices Reviewed from bound galleys

By Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau writes about the interior lives of seemingly ordinary characters. In her newest novel, 71-year-old Lucy Caine is a woman few people would look at twice on the street, yet Lucy’s life has been ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Frozen Thames

By Helen Humphreys

In her newest book, Helen Humphreys imagines a river, and those who live on it, suspended by ice. Not just any river, but the Thames, a river that has frozen over 40 times in the ... Read More »

October 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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