Wanting Mor

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

The Battle for Duncragglin

By Andrew H. Vanderwal

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

My Parents Are Sex Maniacs: A High School Horror Story

By Robyn Harding

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: The Story of Wild Mustangs

By Ian Tyson; Adeline Halvorson, illus.

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

Lord of the Sky

By Linda Zeman-Spaleny; Ludmila Zeman, illus.

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

Farley Follows His Nose

By Lynn Johnston and Beth Cruikshank; Lynn Johnston, illus.

When we last saw Farley, the scruffily loveable and loveably scruffy sheepdog from Lynn Johnston’s beloved strip For Better or For Worse, he was, well, dead, having snuffed it while rescuing the Patterson family’s youngest ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dance Baby Dance

By Andrea Spalding

As its title suggests, the text of this board book for the very young is about dancing. In it, Baby is urged to dance – with sister, Teddy, friends, the sun and the moon, in ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Swim the Fly

By Don Calame

Reading like a cross between Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Karate Kid, Don Calame’s Swim the Fly finds nerdy 15-year-old Matt Gratton conspiring with his equally nerdy buddies, Cooper and Sean, to achieve ... Read More »

April 8, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Amphibian

By Carla Gunn

Phin Walsh, the nine-year-old narrator of Carla Gunn’s debut novel, is the kind of kid who could only be described as “sensitive.” Hours spent watching documentaries on the Green Channel have left him better informed ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fall

By Colin McAdam

The “Fall” in the title of this finely crafted thriller is Fallon DeStindt, a student at an exclusive Ottawa-area boarding school who mysteriously disappears halfway through the book. Two people who seem to be implicated ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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