The Colours of My Home: A Portrait of Newfoundland & Labrador

Two Newfoundland sisters, Susan Pynn and Nancy Keating, have put together a pleasant book celebrating their home province. The Colours of My Home takes the reader on a colour-coded tour of Newfoundland and Labrador, highlighting ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Trip with Grandma

By Ruth Ohi

Ruth Ohi’s latest picture book, her third to feature guinea pig characters, is a charming story about a young child’s first overnight trip without his parents. Though little Sprout likes seeing new places and loves ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Nightwalker: The Warlocks of Talverdin

By K.V. Johansen

In Nightwalker, New Brunswick author K.V. Johansen has moved from the near future of her first novel, The Cassandra Virus, to an indeterminate but vaguely medieval fantasy past. The new book gives her a chance ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

Jakeman

By Deborah Ellis

Deborah Ellis has never shied away from taking a stand, as her award-winning fiction and non-fiction about AIDS and war attests. She’s firmly on the side of those marginalized by poverty, gender, race, and age. ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

The Royal Woods

By Matt Duggan

The Royal Woods follows the adventures of a young brother and sister who run away from their Toronto home to spend the summer with relatives on a farm in Manitoba. To their dismay, Turk and ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

Better Than Blonde

By Teresa Toten

Despite her realization, at the end of Me and the Blondes, that blondes also have problems, 15-year-old Sophie Kandinsky still longs “to be a Blonde in the deeper, metaphysical, spiritual sense, with a big honking ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

Chin Music

By Gregory Roberts

It’s difficult to resist the temptation to lace this review of Calgarian Gregory Roberts’ debut YA novel with baseball slang. It’s such an integral part of his story that each chapter begins with a relevant ... Read More »

May 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The Big Book of Pop Culture: A How-to Guide for Young Artists

By Hal Niedzviecki; Marc Ngui, illus.

Self-styled indie guru Hal Niedzviecki proselytizes to the fledgling creative masses with The Big Book of Pop Culture. Sticking close to his DIY cultural principles, Niedzviecki attempts to map out a route to the heart ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

SOS: Stories of Survival

By Ed Butts

SOS: Stories of Survival will be compulsive reading for young teens who have stopped fretting over monsters under the bed in favour of adult-themed fears of death and loss, and for those who are fascinated ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

★ Sweet: The Delicious Story of Candy

By Ann Love and Jane Drake; Claudia Davila, illus

Ann Love and Jane Drake have co-authored several books for kids about nature and environmental conservation, the last one focusing on garbage. The two sisters have more recently turned to sweeter-smelling material, and the results ... Read More »

May 30, 2007

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