Orca Book Publishers’ new Limelights series takes readers backstage and into the lives of teens trying to make it in the performing arts. Two of the first books in the series are Totally Unrelated and ... Read More »
August 21, 2013
Orca Book Publishers’ new Limelights series takes readers backstage and into the lives of teens trying to make it in the performing arts. Two of the first books in the series are Totally Unrelated and ... Read More »
August 21, 2013
Fanny Britt is well known in her native Quebec as a translator, playwright, and children’s author. The first of her books to be translated into English, Jane, the Fox and Me, is also Britt’s first ... Read More »
August 21, 2013
Allison van Diepen’s previous books include gritty urban realism, vampire stories, and two novels for the Harlequin Teen imprint. In Takedown, which grew out of her experience teaching inner-city youth in Brooklyn, the Ottawa author ... Read More »
August 21, 2013
The frenetic compulsions of (almost) 15-year-old Adam Spencer Ross vibrate off the pages of Toronto author Teresa Toten’s latest YA novel. In the space of a heartbeat, Adam falls for Robyn, the newest member of ... Read More »
August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Book news
After earning tremendous critical success with her debut novel, Plain Kate (winner of the 2011 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award), Erin Bow returns with a soul-bruising tale of death and madness. Sorrow’s Knot centres on ... Read More »
August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Magician’s rabbit Hocus Pocus is back in a new comic-book adventure by celebrated French-Canadian creators Sylvie Desrosiers and Rémy Simard. Though it is a sequel to 2011’s Hocus Pocus, young readers do not need to ... Read More »
August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Patricia Storms is no stranger to penguins. The Toronto author and illustrator had success with her 2009 book, The Pirate and the Penguin, which featured a squat version of the flightless bird as foil to ... Read More »
August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
In Vancouver graphic designer Bree Galbraith’s debut picture book, young Theo’s tale begins with a common childhood heartbreak: a balloon slipping from his grasp and floating away. After watching the balloon disappear into the distance, ... Read More »
August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
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