★ Chimerascope

Douglas Smith opens his new collection of stories with a cheeky definition of the imaginary titular object: “An instrument, in book form, used for viewing a disparate (but hopefully, not grotesquely so) collection of impossible ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Road Tripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals

By Conni Massing

Every summer for the past 10 years, Conni Massing and a gaggle of her theatre friends have embarked on raucous road trips throughout their home province of Alberta. Road Tripping: On the Move with the ... Read More »

April 26, 2010 | Filed under: Reference

Borderline

By Allan Stratton

The premise of Allan Stratton’s new YA novel is an intriguing one. Suppose you are a teenage Muslim boy growing up in middle-class America, and just when you begin to suspect that your Iranian-born father ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Green Careers: You Can Make Money AND Save the Planet

By Jennifer Power Scott

Green Careers grew out of an article Jennifer Power Scott wrote for Canadian Living magazine about young people in environmentally friendly jobs. The book expands on that theme, offering close to 40 interviews with young ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Monster Fliers: From the Time of the Dinosaurs

By Elizabeth MacLeod; John Bindon; illus.

Books about prehistoric life fill bookstores and libraries, and every year new volumes appear. With that in mind, it’s no mean feat to create a dinosaur-themed book that can stand with the ones already out ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

50 Burning Questions: A Sizzling History of Fire

By Tanya Lloyd Kyi; Ross Kinnaird, illus.

If fire were a person, you could say he had an “image problem.” After all, we usually hear about fire on the news as a destructive force, something causing property damage and occasionally killing people. ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Sail Away with Me: Old and New Poems (ages 3-6)

By Jane Collins-Philippe; Laura Beingessner, illus.

Sail Away with Me collects two dozen sea-themed poems, divided almost evenly between some well-known favourites (and lesser-known discoveries) and original poems by former Torontonian Jane Collins-Philippe (who, according to her bio, now spends half ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

The Archaeolojesters

By Andreas Oertel

Twelve-year-old Cody and his best friend Eric are spending a typically drowsy summer in Sultana, Manitoba, when the unthinkable happens. With the local MacFie River almost dry because of an extended drought, the business owners ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Hearts at Stake

By Alyxandra Harvey

Stalked by throngs of fanged bachelors and hunted by a bloodthirsty queen, Solange Drake is bracing herself for a seriously sour 16th birthday. In Alyxandra Harvey’s sassy and action-packed novel – the first instalment of ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

Folly

By Marthe Jocelyn

In British historical fiction, the most exciting action typically occurs in one of three places: the scullery, the orphanage, or the industrial factory. Recent Vicky Metcalf Award-winner Marthe Jocelyn skilfully employs the first two settings ... Read More »

April 19, 2010

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