Kids’ Books

Put Me in a Book!

By Robert Munsch; Michael Martchenko, illus.

It’s fairly well known that iconic children’s author Robert Munsch uses real kids and the stories they tell him as inspirations for the characters and situations in his work. His latest effort is no different, ... Read More »

June 11, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

Willow’s Whispers

By Lana Button; Tania Howells, illus.

Learning to assert yourself is not really about having a big voice, it’s about using the one you have – such is the lesson of Lana Button’s first picture book. Willow is all too familiar ... Read More »

June 11, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book

By Gord Hill

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, by First Nations artist and longtime political activist Gord Hill, promises a fresh approach to understanding what has happened to indigenous people in the Americas since 1492. But ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

Sonnets

By Camille Martin

As the no-nonsense title of Toronto-based Camille Martin’s second collection suggests, the book is made up entirely of 14-line poems, 101 in all – 53 fewer than Shakespeare, 24 more than Berrigan. The latter’s “baffling ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Brown Dwarf

By K.D. Miller

There are several ways to pen a story concerning young girls and criminal acts. One method: treat it lightly, à la Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mysteries, playing the crime as an old-fashioned puzzler. Another ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Such a Good Education

By France Théoret; Luise von Flotow, trans.

There is one word that overwhelmingly comes to mind while reading Such a Good Education: bleak. The novel, set in Montreal during the waning years of “The Great Darkness” under Maurice Duplessis, practically reeks of ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

One Bloody Thing After Another

By Joey Comeau

Following 2009’s Overqualified, Joey Comeau returns with another slim, quirky novel. The earlier volume contained a series of faux-confessional job application letters. Taking up where that book left off, One Bloody Thing After Another opens ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation

By John Boyko

At first glance, there is something almost reassuringly Canadian about the fact that R.B. Bennett, who was prime minister during the worst years of the Great Depression, between 1930 and 1935, has mostly avoided the ... Read More »

May 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Truth About Delilah Blue

By Tish Cohen

In a previous life, Lila Mack had been Delilah Blue Lovett, living out an idyllic childhood in Toronto with her unconventional mother, Elisabeth. Everything changed, however, when at age eight, her father, Victor, whisked her ... Read More »

May 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Reader on Reading

By Alberto Manguel

In 1998, Alberto Manguel released Into the Looking Glass Wood, a collection of essays that, in its indirect way, pays obeisance to the enduring genius of Lewis Carroll. His new collection, A Reader on Reading, ... Read More »

May 10, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

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