Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd

Being Caribou is a kids’ version of wildlife biologist and park warden Karsten Heuer’s adult book of the same name. (It is also the name of a related National Film Board DVD.) The children’s book ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Beware, Pirates! Canadian Flyer Adventures 1

By Frieda Wishinsky; Dean Griffiths, illus.

A limited vocabulary and simple, predictable sentence structures make this time-travel adventure, with its glimpse into Canadian history, easily accessible to kids who are learning to read chapter books. Emily and Matt find a magic ... Read More »

March 5, 2007

The Candy Darlings

By Christine Walde

In her wildly inventive debut novel, Ontario author Christine Walde begins as a girl-versus-girl-gang story, then heads deep into the psychological woods. After Walde’s unnamed narrator starts at a new school in a new town, ... Read More »

March 5, 2007

The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr

By Nicolas Debon

The boom in graphic novels for the young is easily understood. Ever since Art Spiegelman’s stunning Maus, published in 1986, expanded the genre to include weighty themes, artists have realized the elastic potential of the ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Aunts Come Marching

By Bill Richardson; Cynthia Nugent, illus.

How many kids have livened up a rainy afternoon or a long car trip by singing the innumerable verses of “The Ants Came Marching”? And how often have parents, teachers, or camp leaders been driven ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Grumpy Bird

By Jeremy Tankard

He was too grumpy to eat. He was too grumpy to play. In fact, he was too grumpy to fly. ‘Looks like I’m walking today,’ said Bird.” And yet, Grumpy Bird, written and illustrated by ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe

By John Bell

Given that the superhero genre has dominated the comic book medium for more than half a century, it’s not all that surprising that a history of Canadian comics would bear a subtitle stating that our ... Read More »

March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Ethical Imagination

By Margaret Somerville

In The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville, who holds positions in the faculties of Law and Medicine at McGill University, speaks in a public voice as opposed to an academic one. This is the case not ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

i-ROBOT

By Jason Christie

Poetry about robots has “disaster” written all over it. But surprisingly, the poetry in i-ROBOT is peppered with enough playfulness that the reader doesn’t feel compelled to hunt for deep meaning in the sci-fi verse.Instead, ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Red Ledger

By Mary Dalton

Newfoundland author Mary Dalton’s latest book is more like her 1993 collection, Allowing the Light, than her outstanding 2004 offering, Merrybegot – in fact, there are poems from the earlier book reprinted in this one. ... Read More »

February 27, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

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