Children and YA Fiction

★ Once Upon a Balloon

By Bree Galbraith; Isabelle Malenfant, illus.

In Vancouver graphic designer Bree Galbraith’s debut picture book, young Theo’s tale begins with a common childhood heartbreak: a balloon slipping from his grasp and floating away. After watching the balloon disappear into the distance, ... Read More »

August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Loula Is Leaving for Africa

By Anne Villeneuve

Loula can’t stand her three roughhousing brothers. The final indignity comes when she is waylaid while carrying her tea set, so self-possessed Loula takes action to escape the “mean, terrible, stinky” triplets and punish her ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Once Upon a Northern Night

By Jean E. Pendziwol; Isabelle Arsenault, illus.

A parent’s vision of a wintry Northern idyll leaps beautifully to life in this collaboration by author Jean E. Pendziwol and illustrator Isabelle Arsenault. As a young child sleeps snugly inside the comfort of a ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Beautiful Goodbye

By Nancy Runstedler

In her debut novel, librarian Nancy Runstedler uses two fantastical elements – the occult and time travel – to lure readers into a narrative that informs as it entertains. The story begins shortly after the ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Creeps

By Darren Hynes

Toronto actor Darren Hynes’ new novel centres on two disaffected teens in a small Labrador mining town, one of whom – a snarling, be-muscled thug known as Pete “the meat” – is a bully in ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Color of Silence

By Liane Shaw

Liane Shaw’s poetic novel of grief and friendship examines the vast difference between how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. Wallowing in self-hatred following the accidental death of her best friend, 17-year-old Alex ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Whatever Doesn’t Kill You

By Elizabeth Wennick

At 15, Jenna has already had her fair share of misfortune, beginning with her father’s murder when she was just a few days old. Her mother, whose mind was permanently altered by a botched suicide ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Summer Days, Starry Nights

By Vikki VanSickle

Summer Days, Starry Nights is a love letter to summer, the 1960s, and the decade’s music, told through the story of 14-year-old Reenie Starr. More than anything, Reenie loves her family’s summer resort, Sandy Shores, ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Branded by the Pink Triangle

By Ken Setterington

From retired Toronto librarian Ken Setterington, whose publishing credits include the picture book Mom and Mum Are Getting Married! (illustrated by Alice Priestley) and the reference book A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books in English, ... Read More »

April 23, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ In the Tree House

By Andrew Larsen; Dušan Petricic, illus.

Scene: two children stand in the late afternoon sunlight comparing shadows. The little brother says, “Look! I’m long!” His older sister replies, “I’m longer.” Siblings give us our first experience of the tyranny of comparison. ... Read More »

April 23, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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