The Odds Get Even

Boney, Itchy, and Squeak are best friends, drawn together by their status as misfits and their proximity as neighbours. They also share a tree house, situated in Boney’s backyard, where they meet to eat crackers ... Read More »

September 25, 2009

David

By Ray Robertson

Ray Robertson has experimented with recent history in his fiction, chronicling the waning of Kerouac and the Beat dream in What Happened Later and examining the kaleidoscope of the late 1960s country-hippie milieu in Moody ... Read More »

September 21, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea

By Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce, the prolific Nova Scotia author and publisher of Pottersfield Press, offers a meditation on life that focuses on the natural landscape around his home – a meditation prompted by an unidentified personal crisis. ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Have I Got a Book for You!

By Melanie Watt

The title of Mélanie Watt’s newest picture book pretty much says it all. Have I Got a Book for You! is a self-reflexive and broadly comic parody of self-promotion that invites its young readers to ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ When Stella Was Very, Very Small

By Marie-Louise Gay

It’s a pleasure to see another book about Stella, Marie-Louise Gay’s indomitable heroine with curly red hair and joie de vivre to match. In this eighth book of the series, Gay has lost none of ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Night Flight

By Mireille Messier; Carl Pelletier, illus.

Luca has an active imagination – especially at night, when he should be sleeping. Everyday objects in his bedroom suggest multiple adventures, and all he has to do is whisper, “Moonlight, Starlight, Twilight, Night Flight!” ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Democracy

By James Laxer

James Laxer’s Democracy, the latest in the Groundwood Guide series, begins with a statement that may surprise young readers: “In the West, citizens assume that they live in a democracy.” He then lists some of ... Read More »

August 31, 2009

★ Tell Me Why: How Young People Can Change the World

By Eric Walters

In this thought-provoking compilation, prolific author Eric Walters takes a unique approach to exploring how young people can make a difference in the world. His imaginary stand-in, a curious child named Jo, asks how people ... Read More »

August 31, 2009

Bubble Homes and Fish Farts

By Fiona Bayrock; Carolyn Conahan, illus.

B.C. author Fiona Bayrock fills this rather unique book with little-known facts, all connected by the delightful theme of bubbles. With a wide range of amazing animal stories – including a spider that lives in ... Read More »

August 31, 2009

The Day the Falls Stood Still

By Cathy Marie Buchanan

Cathy Marie Buchanan’s first novel has the wistful tone of a love letter, addressed to a place few people alive today ever knew: Niagara Falls in the years before it became a tacky tourist destination, ... Read More »

August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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