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
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
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
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
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
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