Mariko Tamaki set the bar high when she wrote 2008’s Skim, a YA graphic novel (with art by her cousin, rising star Jillian Tamaki) that was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and a ... Read More »
August 23, 2012
Counting on Fall is the first in a quartet of books that uses the seasons to illustrate mathematical concepts. The book challenges young readers to count, add, subtract, group, estimate, and determine order using animals ... Read More »
August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books
Counting on Fall is the first in a quartet of books that uses the seasons to illustrate mathematical concepts. The book challenges young readers to count, add, subtract, group, estimate, and determine order using animals ... Read More »
August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books
Jon Klassen garnered critical acclaim for his wickedly amusing debut picture book, I Want My Hat Back (2011). The Ontario-born author/illustrator follows up that success with another sly tale that will have children and adults ... Read More »
August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books
CS Richardson’s first novel, The End of the Alphabet, was an international bestseller and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book. With his follow-up, Richardson has taken the approach he used in his ... Read More »
August 20, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Travellers are often seekers, roaming the earth in search of a greater purpose. In her third book of poetry, Lisa Pasold charts the route to transcendence. Pasold is fascinated by the implications of journeying, and ... Read More »
August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
Words for Elephant Man first appeared from Black Moss Press in 1983. This new edition includes a series of gorgeous etchings by noted artist and woodcarver George Raab. The collection was written during a period ... Read More »
August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
The 14th book of poetry by M. Travis Lane is an exploration of memory, longing, and contemplation. There is a quietness, an insular element to Lane’s verse, and her hushed poetics focus on themes of ... Read More »
August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry
Initially, it might seem ill-advised to have purloined the title for this book from the most famous passage in Leviathan: a rather modest work on Canadian social policy is, after all, unlikely to share many ... Read More »
August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
This summer is the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812, and publishers are marking the occasion with a wave of commemorative titles. James Laxer’s popular history stands out from the pack ... Read More »
August 15, 2012 | Filed under: History
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