Factory Girl

In Factory Girl, veteran writer Barbara Greenwood chronicles life for early-20th-century child labourers in North America. To bring this history alive, Greenwood creates Emily, a young girl forced to leave school and find work after ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ellen Fremedon, Volunteer

By Joan Givner

To the uninitiated, the title of the new Ellen Fremedon novel looks about as promising as an arrowroot biscuit gone soft on a hospital tray. However, those familiar with the first two books in Joan ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Good-Looking) Hero

By Maureen Fergus

The unnamed 13-year-old narrator of first-time author Maureen Fergus’s novel thinks he has it pretty rough. After he’s insulted one too many schoolteachers and other authority figures, his mother forces him to keep a tape-recorded ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Pure Spring

By Brian Doyle

Several years have passed since Martin O’Boy’s adventures in Boy O’Boy. For some reason, Martin is no longer living with his family on Ottawa’s Papineau Street but is instead with the grandfather of his neighbourhood ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

One Winter Night

By Jennifer Lloyd; Lynn Ray, illus.

A rare thing it is to find a holiday offering for children untethered to the licensed-character marketing beast. Rarer still to find a book that gives shape to the sensibility of a Canadian Christmas without ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Little Squire: The Jumping Pony

By Judy Andrekson; David Parkins, illus.

Pretending your bicycle is a horse. Combing out the plastic mane of your turquoise “My Little Pony.” Learning the trick of drawing a horse from three circles. Discussing your dream animal – bay or chestnut, ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Goodnight, Sweet Pig

By Linda Bailey; Josée Masse, illus.

The rhyming tale of escalating porcine anarchy is one that has been all but perfected by American author-illustrator David McPhail in books like Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!, and Pigs Ahoy! Thus it is hard not ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Big Man Coming Down the Road

By Brad Smith

The new novel from Brad Smith is the kind of fast-paced, plot-rich book that begs to be called, in all earnestness, a rollicking good time. In fact, it captures the excitement of its characters’ lives ... Read More »

January 15, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bow Grip

By Ivan E. Coyote

There are many reasons why stories told from the perspective of teens and early twentysomethings can falter in the eyes of older readers. When you’re young, life is full of superlatives, everything seems exciting and ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

God of the Plains

By Gail Robinson

The press release for Gail Robinson’s God of the Plains says that its main character is Emma, a girl born in Saskatchewan in the 1930s. That isn’t true, and therein lies both the strength and ... Read More »

January 11, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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