They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

Roméo Dallaire came to global attention for his efforts to stop the Rwandan genocide while serving with the U.N. He also received enormous praise for his book on the subject, Shake Hands with the Devil, ... Read More »

December 13, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Richard Was a Picker

By Carolyn Beck; Ben Hodson, illus.

At first, a story about a character entangled in a ball of green snot may seem cringe-worthy. But in the hands of Carolyn Beck and Ben Hodson, it’s the basis for an original, funny, gooey, ... Read More »

December 6, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Pluto’s Ghost

By Sheree Fitch

When troubled high-schooler Jake Upshore hears rumours that his girlfriend, Skye, is pregnant and has skipped town to get an abortion, he decides to track her down in Halifax. She doesn’t return his text messages, ... Read More »

November 29, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Trouble with Billionaires: Why Too Much Money at the Top Is Bad for Everyone

By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

The Trouble with Billionaires isn’t exclusively focused on exposing the problems caused by individuals with buckets of money. It is more concerned with how our culture, our government, and our economic system has allowed a ... Read More »

November 22, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Steps Across the Water

By Adam Gopnik; Bruce McCall, illus.

For several generations of young readers who grew up with Eloise, Kay Thompson’s heroine who lives the high life in the Plaza Hotel, New York City has always seemed the perfect place to be a ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Out of Darkness: The Jeff Healey Story

By Cindy Watson

Adult Canadians know how the story of Jeff Healey ends: the award-winning blues and jazz musician succumbed to cancer in 2008, at the age of 41. That Healey died too young goes without saying. But, ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Design It! The Ordinary Things We Use Every Day and the Not-So-Ordinary Ways They Came to Be

By Rona Arato; Claudia Newell, illus.

For most kids, baths are a chore, a bed is for sleeping, and iPods are the coolest, newest way to enjoy music. But to the ancient Romans, a bath was a luxury. Egyptian pharaohs developed ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Fatty Legs: True Story

By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes, illus.

In Fatty Legs, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton (Margaret’s daughter-in-law) present a memoir of young Margaret’s experiences at a northern residential school. Though the book’s dedication page suggests that her experiences were deeply traumatic, that ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Great Lakes & Rugged Ground: Imagining Ontario

By Sarah N. Harvey and Leslie Buffam; Kasia Charko, illus.

It’s hard not to be a little skeptical about Great Lakes & Rugged Ground. After all, why would an author choose haiku – a very rigid form – to tell the history of Ontario and ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

What My Father Gave Me: Daughters Speak

By Melanie Little, ed.

There are few relationships quite as fraught as the one between teenage daughters and their fathers. Even if Dad can’t relate, or is embarrassing, overprotective, or overly doting, a good father-daughter relationship will generally weather ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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