Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Greedy Little Eyes

Billie Livingston’s first collection of short fiction exhibits her trademark snappy wit while delving into the sadder aspects of life: mental illness, family breakdown, and abuse. The 10 stories in this collection are heartbreaking in ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

By Ross King

From a young age, Canadians learn about our country’s most famous painting movement in art classes, yet the Group of Seven’s dramatic landscapes and blazing depictions of Canada’s wilderness still don’t seem to get the ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Elliot’s Fire Truck

By Andrea Beck

Elliot Moose is a firefighter today, hurtling around the house on his bright red fire truck. All he needs is a fire to fight and a friend or two to rescue. The problem is that ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Magpie’s Missing Spoon

By Michael Bradley

Everyone knows that magpies like to collect bright objects, and the titular magpie in the first picture book from Renfrew, Ontario’s Michael Bradley (who is not yet 20 years old) is no exception. When startled ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Jane Austen

By Carol Shields

Jane Austen novels bring comfort. As full of issues as they are, there is a comfort in finding oneself immersed in the Romantic era, when securing a “situation” – if you were a woman, that ... Read More »

August 23, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America

By Peter Firstbrook

Would North America be the same without the lives of two boys, both born in the same walled city in 1451? Cristoforo Colombo and Giovanni Caboto left Genoa separately as young men, went on to ... Read More »

August 20, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book

By Gord Hill

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, by First Nations artist and longtime political activist Gord Hill, promises a fresh approach to understanding what has happened to indigenous people in the Americas since 1492. But ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

Sonnets

By Camille Martin

As the no-nonsense title of Toronto-based Camille Martin’s second collection suggests, the book is made up entirely of 14-line poems, 101 in all – 53 fewer than Shakespeare, 24 more than Berrigan. The latter’s “baffling ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Brown Dwarf

By K.D. Miller

There are several ways to pen a story concerning young girls and criminal acts. One method: treat it lightly, à la Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mysteries, playing the crime as an old-fashioned puzzler. Another ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Such a Good Education

By France Théoret; Luise von Flotow, trans.

There is one word that overwhelmingly comes to mind while reading Such a Good Education: bleak. The novel, set in Montreal during the waning years of “The Great Darkness” under Maurice Duplessis, practically reeks of ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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