Children and YA Non-fiction

Healing Our World: Inside Doctors Without Borders

While writing about the victims of tsunamis, earthquakes, famines, and – worst of all – civil wars, frustration and discouragement must sometimes be close to the surface. But as hard as it must be to ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Great and Awful Summer

By Mitzi Dale

Cape Breton and the windswept moors of England have more in common than you might imagine, besides rugged landscape and gorgeous vistas. Mitzi Dale’s new novel, about a young girl named Sarah working at a ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Veggies Smeggies

By Sean Moore

Vancouver animator Sean Moore’s second picture book, Veggies Smeggies, revolves around a little boy who monotonously explains to the conniving, vegetable-wielding adults around him why he loathes the green stuff. Only his grandma, with the ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

King John of Canada

By Scott Gardiner

A common complaint about CanLit – one that Scott Gardiner addresses in the course of his new novel, King John of Canada – is that Canada’s fiction writers seem completely uninterested in dealing with the ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq

By Joshua Key with Lawrence Hill

Orwell wrote, “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Volunteer: A Canadian’s Secret Life in the Mossad

By Michael Ross with Jonathan Kay

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The End of East

By Jen Sookfong Lee

This debut novel by Jen Sookfong Lee offers an eloquent yet predictable look at the multigenerational experiences of a Chinese-Canadian family in Vancouver. While the prose is raw and the creative energy evident, Lee’s novel ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Good-Looking) Hero

By Maureen Fergus

The unnamed 13-year-old narrator of first-time author Maureen Fergus’s novel thinks he has it pretty rough. After he’s insulted one too many schoolteachers and other authority figures, his mother forces him to keep a tape-recorded ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Pure Spring

By Brian Doyle

Several years have passed since Martin O’Boy’s adventures in Boy O’Boy. For some reason, Martin is no longer living with his family on Ottawa’s Papineau Street but is instead with the grandfather of his neighbourhood ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

This is Daniel Cook at the Fire Station

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 Non-fiction, Picture Books

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