Sixteen-year-old Allie is an analog kid in a digital world. With a part-time job at Bob & Bob Records in Berkeley, California, and a new blog and ’zine under the nom de guerre The Vinyl ... Read More »
April 19, 2010
Although aimed at the very young, this new picture book from Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter is not simplistic. The questions it poses in short, internally rhyming sentences (“How do we know which way to ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
This cheerful picture book by Toronto author/illustrator Andrea Wayne von Konigslow plays with the characteristics of various animals and the imagined difficulties of trying to read to them. In each spread a little girl is ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
There are few things as charming as the deeper reaches of a child’s imagination. Quebec illustrator and children’s author Luc Melanson draws on this adorable quality in his newest picture book. A little boy leads ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Mélanie Watt’s notori0usly timid Scaredy Squirrel has become a huge hit with younger readers, spawning merchandise and even a television show. Chester, another of Watt’s creations, is in many ways the exact opposite of the ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
In 2008, Montreal author Miguel Syjuco’s debut novel nabbed both the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Palanca Award (the Pulitzer of the Philippines) – quite a coup for a first book. Given the noisy ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Ella has an enviable collection of umbrellas. They are colourful and speckled, sparkly and spotty, and she treasures every one. Her favourite, however, is the one that is “robin’s egg blue,” a gift from “kind ... Read More »
April 16, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
In this new memoir, Judy Fong Bates returns to the lives of her parents, Chinese launderers in small-town Ontario, who also served as the inspiration for her novel, Midnight at the Dragon Café, and her ... Read More »
April 12, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
“My book is about representations of the Holocaust. The event is gone; we are left with stories about it. My book is about a new choice of stories.” A book that offers readers a new ... Read More »
April 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Complex mother-daughter relationships drive Gillian Cummings’ first novel, a story of family secrets and the struggle to rise above grief. Sixteen-year-old Sandy Rawlins’ world is falling apart. She is coping with the recent loss of ... Read More »
April 5, 2010
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