How Happy to Be

How Happy to Be is set in Toronto and revolves around Maxine, a thirtysomething entertainment journalist labouring at the fictional neo-con newspaper The Daily. She doesn’t find her job, or her life, particularly satisfying, and ... Read More »

April 7, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Roundup at the Palace

By Kathleen Cook Waldron; Alan & Lea Daniel, illus.

One week before Freedom to Read Week in 1992, the International Woodworkers of America union in B.C. demanded that the Sunshine Coast School District remove all copies of a picture book called Maxine’s Tree from ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Who’s in Maxine’s Tree?

By Diane Carmel Leger; Darlene Gait, illus.

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Wake Up, Henry Rooster!

By Margriet Ruurs; Sean Cassidy, illus.

There is a struggle – in kids’ books, as in life – between learning to appreciate yourself as you are and admitting you need to improve. Are you an ugly duckling, soon to become a ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Queen’s Feet

By Sarah Ellis; Dusan Petricic, illus.

Ellis plies her supple storytelling skills and whimsical imagination to delectable effect in this sly, subversive fairy tale. Her drolly entertaining story explores a phenomenon familiar to parents and caregivers: how children excuse their mischief ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Cassandra Virus

By K.V. Johansen

Forsaking her background in medieval studies, Krista Johansen, the New Brunswick author of the Pippin picture books, moves into the near future for this digital-age adventure. Computer whiz Jordan and his friend Helen are having ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

The Drowned Violin

By Mel Malton

In her first children’s novel, crime fiction writer Mel Malton draws on her background in the arts and her small-town life in Huntsville, Ontario, to create a funny, lively story about four 11-year-olds trying to ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

Hamish X and The Cheese Pirates of the Arctic

By Sean Cullen

As the title suggests, Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates of the Arctic is a very silly book. This is not a bad thing – witness the inspired silliness of Lemony Snicket and Monty Python ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

The Devil, the Banshee and Me

By L.M. Falcone

With her last two books, Walking with the Dead and The Mysterious Mummer, Toronto writer and former teacher L.M. Falcone drew on her experience writing for the pre-teen television series Are You Afraid of the ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Red Goodwin

By John Wilson

It’s admirable and delightful that John Wilson engages the deeds of a British Columbian people’s hero and socialist in this novel of historical fiction. Set in July 1918, the story focuses on a week in ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

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