Children and YA Non-fiction

The Virgin Spy

This engaging debut collection of nine short stories by Toronto author Krista Bridge contains an assortment of compelling, intriguing, likable, moody, and introspective heroines. Stories in The Virgin Spy focus on domestic life and the ... Read More »

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

Havana Best Friends

By José Latour

José Latour’s new novel delivers everything one could ask for in a mystery: suspense, strong characters, an intriguing plot with many twists, violence that serves the story and ramps up the tension, and a setting ... Read More »

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

Baby Khaki’s Wings

By Anar Ali

Anar Ali’s first book is made up of a series of seven diverse and compelling stories centred on the Ismaili community, a Muslim sect with origins in India but with a wide diaspora that includes ... Read More »

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

Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry

By Michael P.J. Kennedy, ed.

It’s bad enough that hockey monopolizes both television and the national consciousness for the bulk of each year — now it’s invading the poetry shelves as well? What is the world coming to? I would ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

★ With Every Mistake

By Gwynne Dyer

A collection of newspaper columns is supposed to act as a gap-filler for a publisher and a quick ego-stroke for its author. A column, after all, is the reactionary, unreflective bastard child of the essay, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Airstream Land Yacht

By Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock’s third collection might disappoint those hoping for another clutch of tough-luck chronicles along the lines of Mean and its follow-up, Days into Flatspin. While those first two books seemed rooted in the same ... Read More »

March 27, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Inside

By Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth J. Harvey writes in short, staccato sentences. Every word a jab. A knife. A fist. Verbal cuts. Makes Hemingway seem like a blabbermouth. The Newfoundland author’s latest novel follows 2003’s The Town That Forgot ... Read More »

March 20, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Earth Magic

By Dionne Brand; Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

People who are contented and stable don’t tend to feel the need for poetry. It’s at the hinge stages of our lives – the language acquisiton heyday of early childhood, the minefield of adolescence, and ... Read More »

March 16, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Book of Lists: The Canadian Edition

By David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen, and Jane Farrow

AAs kids, my sister and I pored over the original The Book of Lists, first published in 1977. Full of obscure, sometimes obscene, information, these lists never failed to fascinate, even if we didn’t always ... Read More »

March 16, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Casualties

By Terrence Heath

Terrence Heath enters dangerous country in his novel Casualties. The book is full of battle scenes from the Spanish Civil War and violence from Depression-era riots in Regina, but eventually, like a good scout, Heath ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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