The Alchemist’s Dream

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

A Star for Christmas

By Trisha Romance

Autumn customarily brings an onslaught of sparkle-bound holiday books destined for children everywhere. Many are craftily created to counterbalance our culture’s increasingly aggressive consumer marketing, by reminding young people of the spirit and meaning of ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling Through Inuit Art

By Shelley Falconer and Shawna White

Stones, Bones and Stitches is a handsome new volume in Tundra’s Lord Museum Book series (which consists of books built around specific museums’ holdings). This installment, written by Shelley Falconer, senior curator at the McMichael ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

This Is My Planet: The Kid’s Guide to Global Warming

By Jan Thornhill

This Is My Planet, by Ontario naturalist and author Jan Thornhill, is the literary equivalent of a shout. The dramatic colours and design of the book will certainly grab a kid’s attention, which is something ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Cheetah Cubs and Beetle Grubs: The Wacky Way We Name Young Animals

By Diane Swanson; Mariko Ando-Spencer, illus.

Author Diane Swanson’s approach to informing readers about the names of young animals is unique. In addition to clearly stating the terms people use when referring to specific baby animals (for example, “young mosquitoes are ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

King of the Lost and Found

By John Lekich

John Lekich returns to the outsider theme of his The Loser’s Club (which garnered a 2002 Governor General’s Award nomination) with a new loser and an equally eccentric plot. In addition to being geeky and ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

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