★ Baygirl

Heather Smith, a Newfoundlander who now makes her home in Waterloo, Ontario, sets her debut novel against the backdrop of the 1992 cod fishing moratoriums that resulted in the loss of approximately 30,000 jobs in ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Camel in the Sun

By Griffin Ondaatje; Linda Wolfsgruber, illus.

Documentary filmmaker Griffin Ondaatje (son of Michael) enters the picture-book world with a quiet, spiritual story that introduces the concept of empathy to young readers. In this thoughtful take on a traditional tale that the ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Time for Flowers, Time for Snow

By Glen Huser; Philippe Béha, illus.

Combining striking illustrations, a dramatic story based on ancient myth, song lyrics, and a companion CD featuring a children’s operetta, Time for Flowers, Time for Snow is a fabulous multi-sensory thrill to be enjoyed by ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Love-lies-Bleeding

By Barbara Haworth-Attard

Barbara Haworth-Attard has followed up her successful Home Child with a story inspired by her own family. After her father died in 1994, she found all the letters he’d written home during the Second World ... Read More »

October 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Kids Cottage Games Book

By Jane Drake and Ann Love, Heather Collins, illus.

This book completes the trilogy that includes The Kids Cottage Book and The Kids Campfire Book. The successful format (evoking the Boston Children’s Museum Brown Paper School series) is that of the other Kids Can ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Down and Dirty Birding

By Joey Slinger

Down and Dirty Birding is downright hilarious. Which is not to say it isn’t informative and useful – it most certainly is. Slinger tells us about the birds in the trees in much the same ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Kids Guide to Fortune Telling

By Louise Dickson, Pat Cupples, illus.

The author’s note on the acknowledgments page encapsulates her approach to this subject: that fortune-telling can be “good, clean, frivolous fun.” Rather than being a serious exploration of psychic phenomena, this is a kids’ craft ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Canfake

By Donald Webster

Thirty years ago my wife and I bought an ancient pine sideboard from an antique dealer we privately referred to as “The Pirate.” “Early Upper Canada,” he said as we tied it onto the roof ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Touched by Fire

By Irene N. Watts

This April, 1,127 people (most of them women) died in the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh. In March 1911, 146 workers (most of them women) died when fire ripped through the Triangle Shirtwaist ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Growing Up, Inside and Out

By Kira Vermond; Carl Chin, illus.

Veteran journalist and editor Kira Vermond’s excellent Growing Up is a straight-talking guide to the roller coaster of puberty, from the first physical changes to what it means to have a healthy sexual relationship. After ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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