It used to be that there was a pretty strong dividing line between comic books and “real” books. When we were kids, books were revered, accepted as the only true means of developing language and ... Read More »
April 20, 2009
Ghost books, along with animal books and dinosaur books, are always hot with young readers. A World Full of Ghosts brings spectral beings from around the world under one roof for what should be an ... Read More »
April 20, 2009
Does every Canadian kid know we have two official national sports: lacrosse (summer) and hockey (winter)? Do they know lacrosse gets its name from the crozier (staff) carried by French bishops? Many kids know that ... Read More »
April 20, 2009
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
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