★ Butterfly Park

Owen Sound, Ontario, artist and author Elly MacKay caught our eye with her debut picture book, If You Hold a Seed (Running Press Kids/PGC) in 2013. Since then, MacKay has kept busy, releasing her second ... Read More »

May 5, 2015 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Outstanding in the Rain: A Whole Story With Holes

By Frank Viva

Every actor, the cliché goes, wants to direct. And if an actor becomes famous and powerful enough, chances are that desire will be fulfilled – whether or not talent in front of the camera translates ... Read More »

April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Drive: A Look at Roadside Opposites

By Kellen Hatanaka

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Connecting Dots

By Sharon Jennings

As a character, the foster child has powerful potential in fiction, combining 19th-century orphan tropes with contemporary neglected-child realism. Notable foster children in books include the iconic Galadriel in Katherine Paterson’s The Great Gilly Hopkins ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Merit Birds

By Kelley Powell

If you’re looking for a book about understanding and acceptance, about a character developing a burgeoning sense of cross-cultural commonality, The Merit Birds by Ottawa author Kelley Powell is not it. When his mother applies ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Prison Boy

By Sharon E. McKay

Set in the slums of an unnamed country, Sharon E. McKay’s latest book tells of Pax, a young boy who lives in a downtrodden orphanage run by a formidable Englishwoman named Bell. Though they don’t ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ghost Most Foul

By Patti Grayson

Manitoba author Patti Grayson (Core Samples; Autumn, One Spring) makes her children’s book debut with Ghost Most Foul, which focuses on Grade 8 basketball star Summer Widden. Shortly after being named captain of her team, ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Incredible Space Raiders from Space!

By Wesley King

On Earth, Jonah Hillcrest is a loner. But after he finds himself aboard a spaceship called the Fantastic Flying Squirrel, he’s recruited into the ranks of the Incredible Space Raiders – an army of children ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Button Hill

By Michael Bradford

Dekker and his little sister, Riley, have been banished to the country for the summer to live with their boring great-aunt Primrose in the dreary community of Button Hill. Resentful at being taken away from ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Pirate’s Bed

By Nicola Winstanley; Matt James (illus.)

Humber College writing instructor Nicola Winstanley follows up her lauded debut picture book, Cinnamon Baby (Kids Can Press, 2011), with a tale that includes several pirate tropes: squawking parrots, chattering monkeys, briny sea air, and ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

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★ Butterfly Park

★ Outstanding in the Rain: A Whole Story With Holes

Drive: A Look at Roadside Opposites

Connecting Dots

The Merit Birds

Prison Boy

Ghost Most Foul

The Incredible Space Raiders from Space!

★ Button Hill

The Pirate’s Bed

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