★ How To

From the outset, it’s clear that Julie Morstad’s How To is a very special book. Each page features the Vancouver artist’s trademark pen-and-ink drawings of kids just being kids: taking things slow (by lying in ... Read More »

April 23, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ A Long Way Away

By Frank Viva

Lauded graphic designer and commercial illustrator Frank Viva takes the mastery of avant-garde picture-book creation he displayed in his 2011 debut, Along a Long Road, to a staggering level in his third title. This self-proclaimed ... Read More »

April 23, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother

By Helen Humphreys

Loss is an open wound, a pain so enormous we reflexively turn away from it to keep from breaking. To examine grief would be to welcome the pain, to keep it alive. In her new ... Read More »

April 15, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Sneaky Art

By Marthe Jocelyn

Aimed at kids ages eight and up, Sneaky Art is a craft book with an unusual twist: it encourages children to make public art. Each of the book’s 24 craft ideas is twofold, offering instructions ... Read More »

April 9, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Skim

By Mariko Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki (illus.)

This graphic novel is a winner. Skim is a unique creation by Mariko Tamaki, a Toronto-based writer and playwright, and her cousin, illustrator Jillian Tamaki, formerly of Edmonton and now living in New York, whose ... Read More »

March 28, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Blackwell Pages: Loki’s Wolves

By K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr

The most frightening aspect of apocalyptic stories is not the means by which the world will end, but the fact of the end itself. Continent-crushing tsunamis, giant meteors, and zombies are all very scary, but ... Read More »

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

The Lake and the Library

By S.M. Beiko

In S.M. Beiko’s florid debut, 16-year-old Ashleigh’s fantasy to escape her “bitter, broken” small town is finally about to come true: her chain-smoking nurse mother has announced they’ll leave at summer’s end. An incurable romantic, ... Read More »

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

The Path of Names

By Ari Goelman

Ari Goelman’s The Path of Names is a charming if somewhat complicated take on the summer-camp mystery novel, infused with Kabbalah mysticism and Gematria, a form of Jewish numerology based on the Hebrew alphabet. When ... Read More »

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

The Awesome, Almost 100% True Adventures of Matt & Craz

By Alan Silberberg

Novels featuring prose interspersed with comics (the Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Big Nate series, for example) are all the rage, though Canadian additions to this trend have been few and far between. Enter ... Read More »

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

Allegra

By Shelley Hrdlitschka

Allegra is not just the title of Shelley Hrdlitschka’s newest novel for young readers, it is also the name of the protagonist and a piece of music that becomes the girl’s salvation and downfall. After ... Read More »

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

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★ How To

★ A Long Way Away

★ Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother

Sneaky Art

★ Skim

The Blackwell Pages: Loki’s Wolves

The Lake and the Library

The Path of Names

The Awesome, Almost 100% True Adventures of Matt & Craz

Allegra

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