Don’t Go Into the Forest!

By Veronika Martenova Charles; David Parkins, illus.

Tundra Books has published an unusual series of five books geared to both the educational and trade markets. Written at a Grade 2 level, these readers share the same format, characters, and theme – scary ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How It Happened in Peach Hill

By Marthe Jocelyn

Marthe Jocelyn has written before about the smoke-and-mirrors world of carnival entertainers: her 2003 novel Earthly Astonishments followed the fortunes of a girl in a Coney Island sideshow in the 1880s. In her new YA ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

1212: Year of the Journey

By Kathleen McDonnell

It’s 1233, and Abel is returning to France after serving the sultan in Cairo as teacher, adviser, and friend for the past 21 years. Abel had left France as part of the glorious Children’s Crusade ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Factory Girl

By Barbara Greenwood

In Factory Girl, veteran writer Barbara Greenwood chronicles life for early-20th-century child labourers in North America. To bring this history alive, Greenwood creates Emily, a young girl forced to leave school and find work after ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ellen Fremedon, Volunteer

By Joan Givner

To the uninitiated, the title of the new Ellen Fremedon novel looks about as promising as an arrowroot biscuit gone soft on a hospital tray. However, those familiar with the first two books in Joan ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

One Winter Night

By Jennifer Lloyd; Lynn Ray, illus.

A rare thing it is to find a holiday offering for children untethered to the licensed-character marketing beast. Rarer still to find a book that gives shape to the sensibility of a Canadian Christmas without ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Little Squire: The Jumping Pony

By Judy Andrekson; David Parkins, illus.

Pretending your bicycle is a horse. Combing out the plastic mane of your turquoise “My Little Pony.” Learning the trick of drawing a horse from three circles. Discussing your dream animal – bay or chestnut, ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Goodnight, Sweet Pig

By Linda Bailey; Josée Masse, illus.

The rhyming tale of escalating porcine anarchy is one that has been all but perfected by American author-illustrator David McPhail in books like Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!, and Pigs Ahoy! Thus it is hard not ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

This is Daniel Cook at the Farm

By Yvette Ghione

Children’s TV shows do not always translate well to print. Happily, the four books published under the Daniel Cook rubric have not only managed to survive the transition, they show a marked improvement upon the ... Read More »

January 8, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Tales from Parc la Fontaine

By Roslyn Schwartz

The work of Roslyn Schwartz, the Montreal-based creator of the Mole Sisters, has been praised for the way it incorporates large ideas into small vignettes for the preschool crowd. The first book in her new ... Read More »

January 8, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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