Kisses Kisses Baby-O!

Sheree Fitch, winner of the 1998 Vicky Metcalf award for a body of work that has inspired Canadian children, has tried her hand at poetry, picture books, non-fiction, novels, and plays for various ages. Now ... Read More »

March 13, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Goose Girl

By Joe and Matrine McLellan; Rhian Brynjolson, illus.

With this new offering, the authors of Pemmican’s successful Nanabosho series of picture books maintain their commitment to aboriginal storytelling but depart from that series and its customary story-within-a-story form. Goose Girl introduces Marie, a ... Read More »

March 13, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Claire and the Bakery Thief

By Janice Poon

With its first-ever graphic novel, Kids Can Press hopes to appeal to readers who are ready to move beyond picture books. Good intentions, but Claire and the Bakery Thief doesn’t always hit the mark, mostly ... Read More »

March 13, 2008

The Ghost of Northumberland Strait

By Lori Knutson

When Charly moves to P.E.I. with her mother after her parents’ divorce, she has trouble adjusting to her new life in her Grammie’s house. Grammie and her mom don’t always get along, and Charly’s sister’s ... Read More »

March 13, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Last Chance for Paris

By Sylvia McNicoll

Fourteen-year-old Zanna is banished to the Alberta icefields with her father and twin brother, while her mother sips espresso on the Champs-Elysées. All because of one tiny unauthorized tattoo on Zanna’s ankle. It’s so unfair! ... Read More »

March 13, 2008

Pain & Wastings

By Carrie Mac

Carrie Mac’s story meets the guidelines and conventions of the Orca Soundings series with brisk efficiency. First-person narrator, present tense, colloquial language, limited vocabulary (at a 3.6 Reading Level), and the drastic problems of urban ... Read More »

March 13, 2008

Passion for Fashion: Careers in Style

By Jeanne Beker; Nathalie Dion, illus.

Surely no one is better positioned to advise aspiring style-makers how to break into the fashion industry than Fashion Television creator Jeanne Beker. Her behind-the-seams look at how to start a career in fashion is ... Read More »

March 13, 2008

The Wright Brothers

By Elizabeth MacLeod; Andrej Krystoforski, illus.

This is a big year for Anne of Green Gables fans, marking the 100th anniversary of the famous book’s publication. Kids Can Press salutes this centennial in one of the latest additions to their Kids ... Read More »

March 13, 2008

Lucy Maud Montgomery

By Elizabeth MacLeod; John Mantha, illus.

March 13, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Super Crocs & Monster Wings: Modern Animals’ Ancient Past

By Claire Eamer

Yukon writer Claire Eamer raises two questions here for young readers: First, what did the extinct ancestors of today’s animals look like? Second, what forces of nature have conspired over time to make some creatures ... Read More »

March 13, 2008

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