Confession

Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, that oft-quoted paragon of unreliable narrators, said you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. It’s an absurd statement, of course, as any parole officer or criminal psychologist ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Valley of the Lost

By Vicki Delany

The small town of Trafalgar, B.C., seems far more suited to quiet vacations than murder, but the detective duo of Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters know better. Their debut, In the Shadow of ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Apologize, Apologize!

By Elizabeth Kelly

There’s a scattered, unsettling feeling to journalist and magazine editor Elizabeth Kelly’s first novel. Maybe it’s the seemingly endless jumble of canines constantly getting underfoot. Maybe it’s the way the narrator, Collie Flanagan, darts like ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

One Careless Moment

By Dave Hugelschaffer

When fighting wildfires, one moment can lead to tragedy. When arson enters the equation, tragedy can turn into murder. One Careless Moment is the second of Dave Hugelschaffer’s Porter Cassel mysteries. As the novel opens, ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Ship of Lost Souls

By Rachelle Delaney

A pirate ship, a treasure map, and a crew of orphans: how could even the most reluctant young reader resist such a premise? In her first novel, author Rachelle Delaney, a graduate of the MFA ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Same Same

By Marthe Jocelyn; Tom Slaughter, illus.

The previous collaborations between Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter were elegant books that broke concepts of size or quantity down to their essence. Spare in text and image almost to the point of being like ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Big and Small, Room for All

By Jo Ellen Bogart; Gillian Newland, illus.

Big and Small, Room for All is the first children’s book Toronto’s Gillian Newland has illustrated. Let’s all hope she decides to stick around. Her gorgeous watercolours add immeasurably to the sense of wonder and ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Oh, Canada!

By Per-Henrik Gürth

Oh, Canada! is the fourth installment in Kids Can’s series of picture books on Canada aimed at early readers, and the second one both written and illustrated by Per-Henrik Gürth (the first two were written ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Boo Hoo Bird

By Jeremy Tankard

Bird suffers a nasty bonk on the head while playing catch with his pal, Raccoon. When he starts to cry, Raccoon takes him to visit all their animal friends, one by one, hoping someone can ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada’s Media Mogul

By Peter C. Newman

This year the machinery mythologizing the high rollers of capitalism is grinding mightily, with the focus turning to media magnates. Donald Trump still holds court on television’s The Apprentice; there’s a new biography of William ... Read More »

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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