Oscar

The latest offering from Jordan Troutt and Sarah Preston (the author-illustrator team who collaborated on 2008’s The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes) will likely please most young listeners, but it may drive some parents mad. ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Doors in the Air

By David Weale; Pierre Pratt, illus.

Written in Seussian rhyming couplets, Charlottetown author David Weale’s Doors in the Air begins with a small boy itemizing the various parts of his house and its contents, employing alliteration that makes reading it aloud ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

House Held up by Trees

By Ted Kooser; Jon Klassen, illus.

Beautiful imagery and images abound in former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser’s latest book for young readers, which is illustrated by Ontario-born Jon Klassen. A house stands in solitude on a wide expanse of lawn; ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books

The French Fry King

By Rogé; Alison Morgan, trans.

Roger the sausage dog is not interested in playing fetch or chasing the mailman. Instead, he spends his time in an existential search for meaning, asking himself important questions such as, “If I had a ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Headmaster’s Wager

By Vincent Lam

Vincent Lam made a literary splash when his first work of fiction, the story collection Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Following his short biography of Tommy Douglas, Lam turns to ... Read More »

April 18, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi

By Susan Aihoshi

It may shock some young readers (and even some adults) to discover that Canada’s history includes a period during which the government branded thousands of citizens “enemy aliens” and sent them to internment camps. The ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War

By Pamela Hickman and Masako Fukawa

April 12, 2012

Get Outside: The Kids Guideto Fun in the Great Outdoors

By Jane Drake and Ann Love; Heather Collins, illus.

In fairness to the authors, trying to manipulate modern children to get off their lazy butts and go play in the fresh air is a gargantuan task. Alas, Get Outside fails to convince. The content ... Read More »

April 12, 2012

Summer in the City

By Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel; Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Married couple Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel have previously collaborated on a pair of illustrated novellas about an adventurous family that includes Charlie and his irrepressible little brother, Max. Travels with My Family (2006) and ... Read More »

April 12, 2012

Emily for Real

By Sylvia Gunnery

Breakups majorly suck, and the main character of Sylvia Gunnery’s latest novel is going through a particularly sucky one. Emily’s boyfriend has dumped her for a university girl (a French university girl at that), leaving ... Read More »

April 12, 2012

Prev 352 353354355 356....1083 1084 Next