The big problem with kids, apparently, is that they spend too much time obsessing over the Then and the When and not living in the moment. If only they were able to let go of ... Read More »
November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
The nearly 80-year-old artist Robert Bateman’s wildlife paintings are both photo-realistic and strikingly animated – imbuing their subjects with life, even when they are depicted doing nothing more than sunning themselves. The paintings are, therefore, ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Doors can be a metaphor for life, with the potential to link us directly with our past, present, and future. In Traitors’ Gate, Whitehorse author Claire Eamer explains this symbolism through the history of eight ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Told entirely in rhyming couplets, Toronto (by way of Vancouver and the U.K.) author Robert Paul Weston’s Zorgamazoo is a story rich in clever wordplay, unusual characters, and fantastic circumstances. Katrina Katrell is a clever ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
B.C. author Laura Trunkey’s dryly funny debut novel is centred around the misadventures of Lily Brook Academy’s newest student, Danny Chandelier. Danny suffers from a malady most distressing: an astonishing capacity for adequateness. Eager to ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Most of the charm of Susan Juby’s newest novel for teens comes from the voice of her main character, Sherman Mack, one helluva kid living in Nanaimo, B.C., who thinks he can crack his high ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Wolf Man, the fourth novel in Brampton, Ontario, writer Edo van Belkom’s Wolf Pack series, begins with an attack that has dangerous repercussions for the inhabitants – human, animal, and in-between – of Redstone, B.C. ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
The familiar theme of leaving the nest is perhaps appropriate for a first picture book, and Calgary’s Tera Johnson and Toronto illustrator Tania Howells are both trying out their wings with this story. Berkeley the ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
In the barnyard, everyone is having babies, and the babies are asking plenty of questions. The lamb asks her mother, “Who are you?” and is told, “I am your mother.” She then asks: “Who am ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
Don Gillmor’s delightfully alarming new picture book begins with the absurd premise that a boy could eat up so much of the world that “The earth wasn’t even round any more. It was shaped like ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
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