Long Shot: How the Winnipeg Falcons Won the First Olympic Gold

Sports historian and writer Eric Zweig’s engaging Long Shot – an entry in Lorimer’s Recordbooks series of Canadian sports stories for reluctant readers – tells the tale of the Winnipeg Falcons, the first Canadian hockey ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Out of Line: Growing Up Soviet

By Tina Grimberg

First-time Toronto writer Tina Grimberg chronicles her life as a young girl in 1970s Ukraine in this engaging memoir. Grimberg records the terrors and hardships of the communist regime – the fear of informers, the ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

By Dave Bidini

Despite endless new techno-entertainments that siphon off young people’s creative juices, the urge to write more than text messages miraculously persists. Teachers, librarians, and parents recognizing symptoms of that itch in students and offspring can ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The Feathered Cloak: The Trilogy of the Tree, Part 1

By Sean Dixon

Our epic tale begins in the year 933. Two kings – Erik Blood-Axe and Haakon the Good, brothers who were separated at birth – are competing to be rightful leader of the great frozen nation ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane

By Polly Horvath

How can you go on living after a devastating personal loss? The teenage heroines of Polly Horvath’s latest YA offering think they know: find some discarded airplane parts, put them together, and simply fly away. ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

The Alchemist’s Dream

By John Wilson

This impressive new historical novel by Vancouver Island-based writer John Wilson charts the adventures of Robert Bylot, a 17th-century English explorer who accompanied Henry Hudson on his last voyage. The alchemist of the title is ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Lady Ginny’s Tea Parties

By Susan Rennick Jolliffe

This whimsical book by Ottawa illustrator Susan Rennick Jolliffe is set up as the scrapbook of Lady Ginny, a very fashionable poodle who takes it upon herself to orchestrate a year’s worth of tea parties ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Bumblebee Sweater

By Betty Waterton; Kim LaFave, illus.

Betty Waterton, author of such beloved books as A Salmon for Simon and the Quincy Rumpel series, will delight children again with this droll story, jauntily illustrated by the playful, prolific Kim LaFave. A gift ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Elijah of Buxton

By Christopher Paul Curtis

The path of contemporary children’s literature is strewn with worthy novels intended to teach and preach that mostly fail to ignite any response. Great and tragic events – such as war, famine, or genocide – ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Hanna Bear’s Christmas

By Monica Devine; Sean Cassidy, illus.

Quite the opposite approach [to nostalgia] is taken by Alaskan writer Monica Devine (Carry Me, Mama; The Iditarod) in Hanna Bear’s Christmas, the vividly illustrated plot-driven story of an anthropomorphic bear who requests that her ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

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