Kids’ Books

★ Sorrow’s Knot

After earning tremendous critical success with her debut novel, Plain Kate (winner of the 2011 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award), Erin Bow returns with a soul-bruising tale of death and madness. Sorrow’s Knot centres on ... Read More »

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

Hocus Pocus Takes the Train

By Sylvie Desrosiers; Rémy Simard, illus.

Magician’s rabbit Hocus Pocus is back in a new comic-book adventure by celebrated French-Canadian creators Sylvie Desrosiers and Rémy Simard. Though it is a sequel to 2011’s Hocus Pocus, young readers do not need to ... Read More »

August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Never Let You Go

By Patricia Storms

Patricia Storms is no stranger to penguins. The Toronto author and illustrator had success with her 2009 book, The Pirate and the Penguin, which featured a squat version of the flightless bird as foil to ... Read More »

August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Once Upon a Balloon

By Bree Galbraith; Isabelle Malenfant, illus.

In Vancouver graphic designer Bree Galbraith’s debut picture book, young Theo’s tale begins with a common childhood heartbreak: a balloon slipping from his grasp and floating away. After watching the balloon disappear into the distance, ... Read More »

August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Restoration Artist

By Lewis DeSoto

Idealized and melancholic pastoral landscapes devoid of people. These are the paintings that Leo Millar, the protagonist of author Lewis DeSoto’s The Restoration Artist has made a good living from. Only after losing his beloved ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Emancipation Day

By Wayne Grady

Wayne Grady – former magazine writer and editor, author of 14 non-fiction titles, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning translator, and editor of numerous anthologies of both fiction and non-fiction – is not exactly new to the ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Is This Panama? A Migration Story

By Jan Thornhill; Soyeon Kim, illus.

Children need nature. This notion was urgently reasserted almost a decade ago by Richard Louv in his study Last Child in the Woods, in which he coined the term “nature deficit disorder,” positing that modern ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Nala’s Magical Mitsiaq: A Story of Inuit Adoption

By Jennifer Noah; Qin Leng, illus.

Telling the story of one family’s experience of Inuit custom adoption, Nala’s Magical Mitsiaq is the first title in the Community imprint from Inhabit Media, which involves members of the Nunavummiut community in the conception ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Whimsy’s Heavy Things

By Julie Kraulis

Much has been written lately about how to talk to young children about the tragic or scary events they are inevitably exposed to in the news or through their friends. Whimsy’s Heavy Things is a ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Loula Is Leaving for Africa

By Anne Villeneuve

Loula can’t stand her three roughhousing brothers. The final indignity comes when she is waylaid while carrying her tea set, so self-possessed Loula takes action to escape the “mean, terrible, stinky” triplets and punish her ... Read More »

August 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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