Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog

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

Have You Ever Seen a Duck in a Raincoat?

By Etta Kaner; Jeff Szuc, illus.

Is it a science book or a picture book? That’s the question that comes to mind when reading the newest offering from teacher-turned-writer Etta Kaner. At first glance, the book presents itself as a picture ... Read More »

January 20, 2009

You Are Weird: Your Body’s Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions

By Diane Swanson; Kathy Boake, illus.

Don’t let the wacky title or madcap illustrations fool you: veteran science writer Diane Swanson takes on a serious task in her new book, You Are Weird. Most kids are well aware that the human ... Read More »

January 20, 2009

Black and White

By Eric Walters

Eric Walters’ Black and White is a thoughtful book undermined by a serious flaw. The novel is about two middle school suburban kids. Thomas, 13, is in Grade 8. Denyse, 12, is in Grade 7. ... Read More »

January 20, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Snakes and Ladders

By Shaun Smith

Q&Q contributing editor Shaun Smith’s first YA novel is very aptly titled, as it is a dark coming-of-age story that involves its fair share of both real and figurative snakes and ladders. It is 1971, ... Read More »

January 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Arctic Visions: Pictures from a Vanished World

By Fred Bruemmer

Between 1964 and 1995, Montreal-based photographer Fred Bruemmer spent part of each year living among the Inuit in the Arctic. Bruemmer was enthralled by the “magic and majesty” of the land itself – “its rugged ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison

By Cathleen With

Trista, the 15-year-old protagonist of Cathleen With’s debut novel, is a psychically damaged native girl from a small town in the Northwest Territories. Currently incarcerated in a youth facility awaiting trial, she keeps her newborn ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Book Collector

By Tim Bowling

The Book Collector is Edmonton-based poet Tim Bowling’s eighth collection. Add to that three novels, a collection of interviews edited by him, and the 2007 memoir The Lost Coast, and you’ve got one industrious writer. ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

I & I

By George Elliott Clarke

In an introductory note coyly entitled “Directions,” George Elliott Clarke explains the self-indulgent premise of his latest book of poetry. I & I links “phrases and images cannibalized […] from adolescent inklings.” It is the ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation

By Jonathan F. Vance

Unlikely Soldiers, by University of Western Ontario history professor Jonathan F. Vance, is the story of two young Canadians, Ken Macalister and Frank Pickersgill, who perished in the Second World War as agents of the ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: History

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