Young people often have difficulty thinking about time in the relative sense. Just how long is a minute, or a week, or a month, anyway? In Just a Minute!, Toronto science writer and schoolteacher Jeff ... Read More »
April 20, 2009
This is the fifth in the Kids Can Press Who Lives Here? series by author and former educational consultant Deborah Hodge. As in the other four books, Hodge familiarizes children with a selection of creatures ... Read More »
April 20, 2009
Josiah Henson was born a slave in Maryland in 1789. He watched his father get whipped, was sold three times, and was himself beaten for wanting to learn to read when he was nine. And ... Read More »
April 20, 2009
Bank Job is the story (apparently based on a true one) of three teens who decide to rob banks in order to raise $10,000 – not for themselves, but to help out their foster parents. It’s ... Read More »
April 15, 2009
It might be a tad cynical, but it’s all the same difficult to shake the impression that Wolf Pack of the Winisk River, the first book from Belleville, Ontario, author Paul Brown, was written to ... Read More »
April 15, 2009
As strange and faraway a place as Afghanistan may be to most Canadian readers, in Rukhsana Khan’s contemporary story it has a fairy-tale familiarity – of the Grimm sort, not Disney. Like Cinderella, Wanting Mor’s ... Read More »
April 15, 2009
First-time author Andrew Vanderwal knows what the pre-teen set wants in their historical fiction: danger, action, camaraderie, and enough period detail to satisfy any future Jeopardy contestant’s appetite for trivia. The Battle for Duncragglin is ... Read More »
April 15, 2009
Meet Louise Harrison, the smart, sensitive, big-boned hero of Vancouver author Robyn Harding’s first novel for teens, My Parents Are Sex Maniacs. Dreaming of being a famous fashion designer in New York City, Louise finds ... Read More »
April 15, 2009
La Primera is an attractive pairing of a song by Canadian folk-music legend Ian Tyson and a set of paintings by Saskatchewan-born Adeline Halvorson. Following the history of mustangs from 1493, when the first such ... Read More »
April 15, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
This book is a family project that began life as a 1991 animated short film. First-time author Linda Zeman-Spaleny is the daughter of Ludmila Zeman and Eugen Spaleny, the directors, scriptwriters, and animators of the ... Read More »
April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
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