Children and YA Non-fiction

Out of Focus

In this teen issue novel set in Winnipeg and northwestern Ontario, Buffie tells the story of 16-year-old Bernice Dodd, whose alcoholic mother, Celia, has put her in a caretaking role she resents. Celia’s unreliability has ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Megiddo’s Shadow

By Arthur Slade

Devastated by the death of his older brother in France in September 1917, 16-year-old Edward Bathe defies his father by joining Saskatchewan’s Bull Moose Boys to fight “the Huns.” Edward wants to ensure that his ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

I Am a Taxi

By Deborah Ellis

I Am a Taxi’s 12-year-old protagonist, Diego, lives with his baby sister and mother in a tiny cell in Bolivia’s San Sebastian Women’s Prison; his father is incarcerated in the men’s prison across town because ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Christmas Eve Magic

By Lucie Papineau; Stéphane Poulin, illus.

It’s hard to be a Scrooge about a new Christmas book for children, but this collaboration between veteran children’s writer Lucie Papineau and two-time Governor General’s Award-winning illustrator Stéphane Poulin seems to miss its mark. ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Huron Carol

By Jean de Brebeuf; Jesse Edgar Middleton, trans.; Ian Wallace, illus.

The Huron Carol’s English lyrics by Jesse Edgar Middleton are an early 20th-century adaptation of a Huron hymn written circa 1641 by Father Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary who lived with the Wendat (Huron) ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ What Are You Doing, Sam?

By Marie-Louise Gay

Rarely does a children’s book suit its intended audience perfectly. The vocabulary may aim too high or low, or adult preoccupations may creep into what is supposed to be a child’s sphere of thought. But ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ “I Did It Because…”: How a Poem Happens

By Loris Lesynski; Michael Martchenko, illus.

It’s one of those certainties like death or taxes: after an author reading, someone in the audience will invariably ask, “Where do you get your ideas?” Without saying where, exactly, children’s poet Loris Lesynski ponders ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Scotch River

By Linda Little

Casper Hutt is a barely literate Alberta ranch hand and former professional bull rider whose life is changed by a piece of registered mail. He has been left the deed to some land in Scotch ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Winter in Hollywood

By Richard Teleky

By the sound of it, Winter in Hollywood should be a warm, glamorous affair packed with decorated palm trees, brushes with celebrities, and yoga classes full of people grimly working out their New Year’s resolutions. ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Saving Rome

By Megan K. Williams

People have a tendency to romanticize places like Rome. We think of ancient ruins, glamorous Italians with dazzling smiles and sexy accents, fabulous cafés, and zippy red sports cars. But once you’ve lived there, breathing ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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