A Group of One

Fifteen-year-old Tara Mehta considers herself 100% Canadian and doesn’t want to be labelled by her skin colour or her Indian heritage. But when her paternal grandmother, Naniji, comes to Canada for a visit, Tara is ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Apples and Angel Ladders: A Collection of Pioneer Christmas Stories

By Irene Morck, Muriel Wood, illus.

Irene Morck’s Christmas stories are drawn from her father’s experiences as the child of a Danish immigrant family struggling to survive in the 1920s on their farm in Alberta’s central woodlands. Each of the six ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Box Girl

By Sarah Withrow

Sarah Withrow’s characters are would-be escape artists: caught in painfully binding realities, they box themselves in even more tightly in preparation for flight. In her first novel, Bat Summer (which won the Groundwood First Novel ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

On Wings of a Dragon

By Cora Taylor

Stories about surviving extraordinary hardship are always in demand, perhaps because of the hope inspired by those who manage to rise from the ashes of their former lives. In Cora Taylor’s latest fantasy for young ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Four Pictures by Emily Carr

By Nicolas Debon

These two new books on Emily Carr couldn’t have taken more different approaches. Jo Ellen Bogart’s Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World is the more traditional – a crisply written biography, filled with ... Read More »

November 21, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World

By Jo Ellen Bogart, Maxwell Newhouse, illus.

November 21, 2003

Scared to Death

By Norah McClintock

Two kinds of sleuths inhabit the detective genre: the Encyclopedia Browns, who are sought out, and the Sammy Keyes types, who always happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Three-time Arthur ... Read More »

November 21, 2003

Benny Bensky and the Perogy Palace

By Mary Borsky, Linda Hendry, illus.

Every dog has his day. Benny Bensky, a black mutt, thinks his has arrived at the start of the summer vacation. Instead of spending his time home alone chewing up cushions, he’ll have the company ... Read More »

November 21, 2003

The War Within

By Carol Matas

In the opening pages of The War Within, fledgling Southern belle Hannah Green rages in her diary that her little brother has been reading her journal. By the end of this story, she has lost ... Read More »

November 21, 2003 | Filed under: Industry news

The Gramma War

By Kirsten Butcher

Gramma’s coming to live with us! How 11- year-old Annie and her family react to the challenges of this new situation is the subject of Butcher’s thoughtful and often humorous novel. A former teacher, Butcher ... Read More »

November 21, 2003

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