Children and YA Non-fiction

The Kids Guide to Fortune Telling

The author’s note on the acknowledgments page encapsulates her approach to this subject: that fortune-telling can be “good, clean, frivolous fun.” Rather than being a serious exploration of psychic phenomena, this is a kids’ craft ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Canfake

By Donald Webster

Thirty years ago my wife and I bought an ancient pine sideboard from an antique dealer we privately referred to as “The Pirate.” “Early Upper Canada,” he said as we tied it onto the roof ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Growing Up, Inside and Out

By Kira Vermond; Carl Chin, illus.

Veteran journalist and editor Kira Vermond’s excellent Growing Up is a straight-talking guide to the roller coaster of puberty, from the first physical changes to what it means to have a healthy sexual relationship. After ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Hocus Pocus Takes the Train

By Sylvie Desrosiers; Rémy Simard, illus.

Magician’s rabbit Hocus Pocus is back in a new comic-book adventure by celebrated French-Canadian creators Sylvie Desrosiers and Rémy Simard. Though it is a sequel to 2011’s Hocus Pocus, young readers do not need to ... Read More »

August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Restoration Artist

By Lewis DeSoto

Idealized and melancholic pastoral landscapes devoid of people. These are the paintings that Leo Millar, the protagonist of author Lewis DeSoto’s The Restoration Artist has made a good living from. Only after losing his beloved ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Emancipation Day

By Wayne Grady

Wayne Grady – former magazine writer and editor, author of 14 non-fiction titles, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning translator, and editor of numerous anthologies of both fiction and non-fiction – is not exactly new to the ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Whimsy’s Heavy Things

By Julie Kraulis

Much has been written lately about how to talk to young children about the tragic or scary events they are inevitably exposed to in the news or through their friends. Whimsy’s Heavy Things is a ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Fall

By Colleen Nelson

Authors have many good reasons for choosing to set their tales of teen angst in space or the distant past, or in worlds full of vampires, extraterrestrials, or sentient robots. One reason YA writers prefer ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Be a Wilderness Detective

By Peggy Kochanoff

From fireflies to ocean tides, Atlantic Canada’s woods, fields, and coastlines are teeming with natural wonders. In her new non-fiction book, author and illustrator Peggy Kochanoff decodes some of the East Coast’s more intriguing mysteries. ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

It’s a Feudal, Feudal World: A Different Medieval History

By Stephen Shapiro; Ross Kinnaird, illus.

The latest offering from historian and author Stephen Shapiro lives up to its claim to be a “different” history in both its infographic presentation and the scope of material covered. Infographics are a method of ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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The Kids Guide to Fortune Telling

Canfake

★ Growing Up, Inside and Out

Hocus Pocus Takes the Train

The Restoration Artist

Emancipation Day

Whimsy’s Heavy Things

The Fall

Be a Wilderness Detective

It’s a Feudal, Feudal World: A Different Medieval History

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