How many ways and reasons are there to be quiet? You can be quietly listening to a robin sing or making a wish or dropping your sandwich jelly-side down or taking a first look at ... Read More »
May 10, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
For tween girls who recently watched Canada’s female athletes clean up in Vancouver, swimming fanatic Callie Boone arrives right on time. Callie is 11, and we meet her during her “worst summer ever,” one filled ... Read More »
May 3, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
The title of this addition to the lengthening shelf of books about Glenn Gould carries a slight suggestion of tabloid journalism. The suggestion is not altogether misplaced, given this volume’s subject matter. Many of Gould’s ... Read More »
April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
A single-volume history of Canadian literature “from the beginnings” – which here means the first European contact with Native peoples – presents a formidable challenge. The “two women scholars” (their self-description) who have edited this ... Read More »
April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays
St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, offers a liberal arts education, which, given our current obsession with job training, is increasingly rare for post-secondary institutions. The year 2010 marks St. Thomas’s centenary, and this ... Read More »
April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction
The best historical novels effortlessly transport their readers back into the past, while less successful attempts bury the reader in musty research and leave the characters to gather dust. Curiosity, the sophomore effort from Winnipeg-based ... Read More »
April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Although aimed at the very young, this new picture book from Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter is not simplistic. The questions it poses in short, internally rhyming sentences (“How do we know which way to ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
This cheerful picture book by Toronto author/illustrator Andrea Wayne von Konigslow plays with the characteristics of various animals and the imagined difficulties of trying to read to them. In each spread a little girl is ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
There are few things as charming as the deeper reaches of a child’s imagination. Quebec illustrator and children’s author Luc Melanson draws on this adorable quality in his newest picture book. A little boy leads ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Mélanie Watt’s notori0usly timid Scaredy Squirrel has become a huge hit with younger readers, spawning merchandise and even a television show. Chester, another of Watt’s creations, is in many ways the exact opposite of the ... Read More »
April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
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