Who Wants Rocks?

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Langer Krykorka, illus.

Michael Kusugak successfully takes a new direction in his seventh picture book collaboration with illustrator Vladyana Langer Krykorka. In their first six books, this award-winning team focused on eastern Arctic stories. This one moves to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

I Know an Old Laddie…

By Jean Little, Rose Cowles, illus.

Award-winning author Jean Little borrows her plot from I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. For the few who haven’t heard the original story sung, chanted, or read, it’s about an old lady ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Courage My Love

By Sarah Dearing

You really want to like Philippa, the heroine of Sarah Dearing’s new novel,Courage My Love. Feeling like “such a wife,” she slips away from her pastel condo and her yuppie weasel husband, and immerses herself ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Mole Sisters and the Rainy Day

By Roslyn Schwartz

This new series for very young children seems deliberately designed to evoke the early classics of children’s literature with their charming animal characters. The mole sisters are a delightful pair whose optimism brightens up even ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Mole Sisters and the Piece of Moss

By Roslyn Schwartz

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Down There by the Train

By Kate Sterns

Kate Sterns’ second novel, Down There by the Train, takes its cue from Alice in Wonderland, but in Sterns’ world Alice is dead and it is her older brother, Levon, who falls down the rabbit ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The African Safari Papers

By Robert Sedlack

The African Safari Papers, documentary filmmaker Robert Sedlack’s first novel, is the fictional record of 19-year-old Richard Clark’s journey through Kenya with his alcoholic father and psychologically precarious mother. Young Richard intends to write a ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Me and Mr. Mah

By Andrea Spalding, Janet Wilson, illus.

British Columbia author Andrea Spalding’s latest is a sensitive tale about gardens, growing sunflowers, the importance of memories, and the rewards of friendship.The narrator, Ian, is a prairie boy who, when his parents separate, moves ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Middle Stories

By Sheila Heti

Despite the numerous death-of-fiction pronouncements made over the last half-century, some writers continue to search for ways to reanimate the form. Toronto’s Sheila Heti is one such writer. In her first collection of fiction she ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bear on the Train

By Julie Lawson, Brian Deines, illus.

In Bear On the Train, a hungry bear follows the smell of grain right into a railway car. By the time the train pulls out, the bear is ready to hibernate and sleeps through the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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