Stripmalling

By Jon Paul Fiorentino; Evan Munday, illus.

Stripmalling is both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. The hero, Jonny, is a 31-year-old aspiring writer and instructor at a “mildly respectable university” in ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Wizard in Love

By Mireille Levert; Marie Lafrance, illus.;

Kids are often thought to be better than adults at dealing with grief, but that doesn’t mean it’s ever easy. Two works by celebrated Montreal author and illustrator Mireille Levert explore the cycle of loss ... Read More »

February 12, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

My Great Big Mamma

By Olivier Ka; Luc Melanson, illus.; Helen Mixter, trans.

In an era in which everyone seems obsessed with diets and fitness schemes, this picture book weighs in on the side of the pleasantly portly. Lebanese-French author Olivier Ka writes from the perspective of a ... Read More »

February 12, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Imaginary Garden

By Andrew Larsen; Irene Luxbacher, illus.

The intense sensory pleasure of a grandparent’s garden is among many people’s earliest memories. And the loss of a garden, like Eden, is one of the most powerful human stories. Nonetheless, grandparents often have to ... Read More »

February 12, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

By Eric Siblin

The remarkable story of six suites composed for cello by J.S. Bach in the early 1700s, Eric Siblin’s new book is at once a study of music, a work of history, and a passionate tribute. ... Read More »

February 9, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate

By Adrienne Kress

When we first meet him, Timothy Freshwater is a fairly unpleasant character. “Too smart for his own good” and perpetually bored, he’s quick with the backtalk and flip remarks, dismissive of anyone who isn’t as ... Read More »

February 2, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Ego Boom: Why the World Really Does Revolve Around You

By Steve Maich and Lianne George

Member of Generation X or Y: get ready for some bad news. You may see yourself as community-minded, the sort of person who’d organize neighbourhood block parties and do volunteer work if you had the ... Read More »

January 26, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Lenny Bruce Is Dead

By Jonathan Goldstein

The elegiac tone of Jonathan Goldstein’s first novel, Lenny Bruce Is Dead, doesn’t have much to do with the death of the iconoclastic, detatched comic of the title. Rather, Josh, who lives in Montreal, is ... Read More »

January 22, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Focus on Flies

By Norma Dixon

“Flies are more than just mooches who spread disease,” declares the jacket copy for Focus on Flies by Vancouver’s Norma Dixon. Any child who has been exposed to enough nature shows and animal books knows ... Read More »

January 21, 2009

Stanley’s Beauty Contest

By Linda Bailey; Bill Slavin, illus.

Browse the kids’ section at your local bookstore and you might conclude that picture books are entirely populated by animals. Human children do occasionally appear, but the bestselling ones tend to feature mice, squirrels, and ... Read More »

January 20, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

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