Rosa’s District 6

Finding courage, humour, and humanity within oppressive circumstances is a rare but hopeful thing in this bitter world. One such discovery is Rosa’s District 6, a series of short stories situated in 1960s Cape Town, ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad

By Naim Kattan, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Over a lengthy career, Iraq-born Montrealer Naim Kattan has written more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, for which he has received a cache of awards, including France’s Légion d’Honneur and the Order ... Read More »

April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Greenies

By Myra Paperny

What a shock it was, in 1976, to read Myra Paperny’s The Wooden People. It smacked me up against the sudden realization that I had never before read about a Jewish family unself-consciously depicted as ... Read More »

April 15, 2005

The Twelve Days of Summer

By Jan Andrews, Susan Rennick Jolliffe, illus.

From The Twelve Cats of Christmas by Kandy Radzinski to Emily Brenner’s On the First Day of Grade School, the familiar Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” has inspired lots of picture book adaptations. ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Ben Over Night

By Sarah Ellis

Governor General’s Award-winning Vancouver author and Q&Q contributing editor Sarah Ellis follows up her charming Big Ben with Ben Over Night. The youngest member of a family of five, Ben wants to sleep over at ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Omar on Board

By Maryann Kovalski

This engaging picture book glows with the feeling of summer holidays. Popular author-illustrator Maryann Kovalski, who divides her time between Toronto and New York, sets her latest story about the plump bear Omar and his ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Resurrection Blues

By Mike Tanner

Eighteen-year-old Flynn Robinson leaves high school and his sleepy suburban life to join a popular club circuit band, following his dream to be a rock musician like his Uncle Ray, who’s spent his whole life ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Horrors 1: Terrifying Tales for Teens

By Peter Carver, ed.

Horror is a specialized taste but a popular one, particularly among teens. Maybe with so many uncertainties and fears in their lives, it helps to be able to encounter them in a safe form. The ... Read More »

April 15, 2005

From Charlie’s Point of View

By Richard Scrimger

From Charlie’s Point of View, the new novel from Cobourg, Ontario, writer Richard Scrimger, occupies the middle ground between the work of Gordon Korman and the teenage detective TV show Veronica Mars. A solid mystery ... Read More »

April 15, 2005

★ Quid Pro Quo

By Vicki Grant

The narration of teen Cyril MacIntyre in the comic legal thriller Quid Pro Quo has the kind of timing, pacing, deadpan one-liners, and punchy humour that a seasoned stand-up comic would envy. No wonder that ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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