Pitouie

“Adventure” and “intrigue” are two of the last words you would expect to associate with a novel in which the main character works a dead-end job as the associate editor of a waste management trade ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Yes You Can! Your Guide to Becoming an Activist

By Jane Drake and Ann Love

If there is a formula for creating an engaged young citizen, it might look something like this: take one child with a curious and empathetic disposition, and add a lot of reading materials. With that ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Our Earth: How Kids Are Saving the Planet

By Janet Wilson

January 24, 2011

Witchcraft: Tales, Beliefs and Superstitions from the Maritimes

By Clary Croft

A quick browse through Atlantic Canadian bookstores reveals a passion for the past: nearly half the “Local Interest” titles – both fact and fiction – deal with the region’s storied ancestry. As one well-known Maritime ... Read More »

January 24, 2011

Written in Blood

By John Wilson

In the 1870s, thieves, scalp hunters, and other thrill-seekers covered the Mexican desert with blood. John Wilson’s latest novel incorporates all of these figures in a fast-paced western adventure that ropes in subjects of prejudice, ... Read More »

January 24, 2011

★ Rude Stories

By Jan Andrews; Francis Blake, illus.

Short of calling it “Cookie Jar”, Jan Andrews probably couldn’t have given her short story collection a more kid-tantalizing title. Parents and teachers bracing themselves for an onslaught of lowbrow potty humour can breathe easy, ... Read More »

January 24, 2011

Thunder over Kandahar

By Sharon E. McKay

Two 14-year-old Muslim girls struggle through the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan, fleeing danger and certain death. To keep their spirits up, Yasmine tells Tamanna stories from her British childhood of Babar, the gray elephant ... Read More »

January 24, 2011

★ Harvey

By Hervé Bouchard; Janice Nadeau, illus.; Helen Mixter, trans.

Hervé Bouchard and Janice Nadeau’s poignant and poetic graphic novel about a young boy coping with his father’s death won the French-language Governor General’s Literary Award for both text and illustration in 2009, the first ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Winter Shadows

By Margaret Buffie

Vicky Metcalf Award–winner Margaret Buffie returns with a breathtaking novel that is part realism, part time-travel fantasy, and part coming of age tale. Winter Shadows focuses on two young women who live in the same ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Too Much Stuff!

By Robert Munsch; Michael Martchenko, illus.

Robert Munsch weathered some very public difficulties in the past year. Given the amount of goodwill he has generated over the course of his career, it would be wonderful to find his new book a ... Read More »

January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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