Two new books from historical novelist John Wilson take young readers behind the scenes of two very different wars. Death on the River, set at the end of the American Civil War, follows the exploits ... Read More »
October 16, 2009
Despite her curiously old-fashioned name, Toronto-born, U.K.-based author Trilby Kent is actually quite young. What’s more, although you would never know it from the writing, Medina Hill is her first novel. It’s a good beginning, ... Read More »
October 16, 2009
Around the turn of the previous century, a young C.S. Lewis encountered Longfellow’s ballad about the death of the Norse god Balder, and his life was changed. Many years later, in his autobiography, Lewis wrote, ... Read More »
October 16, 2009
The great thing about children’s doggerel is never having to say you’re sorry. You can be as gross as you like, end every poem with a groaner, and never worry about whether an appropriate message ... Read More »
October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
This first picture book by artist and filmmaker Nicholas Oldland is a warm-hearted fable for the very young. Issues of conservation, confrontation, and love for all living things are spun together in the humorous and ... Read More »
October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
One moonlit night, Harry and his stuffed, equine sidekick Horsie are awake past their bedtime. Unable to sleep, they work together to retrieve Harry’s brand-new Super Duper Bubble Blooper from the shelf. Soon, bubbles of ... Read More »
October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
In 1877, George Eastman, a New York banker, took up photography as a hobby, but was frustrated by the expensive, cumbersome, and time-consuming process. After his first photo shoot took so long that his subjects ... Read More »
October 16, 2009
In Norah McClintock’s latest teen crime novel, a lot of bad things happen to high-schooler Stephanie Rawls. Stephanie lives with her mother in a small town in Ontario, where a serial killer targeting teenage girls ... Read More »
October 16, 2009
Tish Cohen’s poor-girl-goes-to-posh-private-school story has the first-person narrator, present-tense mode, and flashback-to-traumatic-event technique that is de rigueur in such works these days. It also has a familiar plot: Sara Black, daughter of her school’s new ... Read More »
October 16, 2009
Maddie Nessfield is in teenage hell: guards are watching her every move, and even her Internet access has been taken away. Her parents locked her up, and she has no idea why. After all, wanting ... Read More »
October 16, 2009
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