February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
When Dylan is 11, he is seized by an unexplained passion to accompany his parents on a sea kayaking trip to Ireland’s Eye, an abandoned island in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Over the next year, Dylan ... Read More »
In The Nordlings, 15-year-old Peggy finds herself thrust out of her unhappy everyday life and into Notherland, the fantasy world she created as a child. The soul-stealing Nobodaddy now threatens Notherland’s existence, and it’s up ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Most girls would feel trapped living on social assistance in Toronto’s Regent Park with their mother and two autistic brothers. But 11-year-old Khyber, who has named herself for a pass in Afghanistan, is one of ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Completing her trilogy about the Crusades with this volume, Karleen Bradford once again creates a gripping story that brings a distant time and place vividly alive for young readers today. Reflecting contemporary awareness that the ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Fans of futuristic fiction will welcome this “somewhere in space” novel by Monica Hughes, award-winning author and acknowledged creator of contemporary Canadian science fiction for young people.The Other Place is an intriguing story about the ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In his playful second book for children, poet Gary Barwin riffs on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Here, a nose and his parents (two old eyes) are desperately poor, and a pair ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Addie is a little girl who is scared of almost everything. She’s scared of the turkey gobbler in the farmyard, wild things that live in the bush, and wolves that howl at night. She’s scared ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The demise of the fairy folk and their tales has been announced for centuries. The Wife of Bath, looking backward nostalgically to the time of King Arthur when the elf-queen danced upon the green, complains ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In the world of the refrigerator (a.k.a. the Wait) the goal is to be Chosen, as the Swiss cheese Louise soon discovers. Everyone there, from slices of bread to cobs of corn, is waiting to ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In Seeing and Believing, a little girl living on the shores of one of the Great Lakes in 1910 longs for her father’s return from sea. Novelist and picture book writer Eliza Clark’s powerful story ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books