Kids’ Books

Running with Dillinger: The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian Outlaws

In his 2006 book The Desperate Ones, Guelph, Ontario, author Edward Butts chronicled the exploits of some famous – and some not-so-famous – Canadian criminals of years gone by. With his follow-up, Running with Dillinger, ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

In the World But Not of It: One Family’s Militant Faith and the History of Fundamentalism in America

By Brett Grainger

The term “fundamentalist,” with its inevitable connotations of religious extremism and even terrorism, has become a veritable pejorative in the North American lexicon. With his first book, In the World But Not of It, former ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

India Express: The Future of a New Superpower

By Daniel Lak

Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat has already outlined how outsourcing has transformed India, but the extent of it is still surprising. As a BBC foreign correspondent covering India and its environs for nearly 20 ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Almost Green: How I Built an Eco-Shed, Ditched My SUV, Alienated the In-Laws, and Changed My Life Forever

By James Glave

Bowen Island-based journalist and stay-at- home dad James Glave is on a mission to reduce his environmental footprint and inspire others to do the same. So he embarked on the construction of a 260-square-foot writing ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

We Could Be Like That Couple…

By Sarah Steinberg

Montreal author Sarah Steinberg’s first book is a collection of stories about girls and young women on the outside, in worlds that are all about being on the inside – ballet classes, ocean cruises, university ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Sleeping Porch

By Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace, the veteran Canadian-born children’s author and illustrator, begins his latest picture book in an unidentified American town. (Wallace now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, a likely contender.) Young Brando is attempting to catch a ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Naomi’s Tree

By Joy Kogawa; Ruth Ohi, illus.

Novelist and poet Joy Kogawa has added another volume to her oeuvre about the experiences of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi’s Tree is a folk tale based on Kogawa’s childhood memories. It ... Read More »

July 7, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Up Home

By Shauntay Grant; Susan Tooke, illus.

A real community, complete with vividly drawn portraits of real residents, comes to life in Shauntay Grant and Susan Tooke’s Up Home, a tender portrayal of Grant’s memories of growing up in the close-knit black ... Read More »

July 7, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Art’s Supplies

By Chris Tougas

In last year’s Mechanimals, author/illustrator Chris Tougas married an original idea – a farmer who has lost his animals creates delightful new mechanical ones – to charmingly offbeat illustrations. With Art’s Supplies, he tells a ... Read More »

July 2, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Yellow Blues

By Sean L. Moore

The young protagonist in Vancouver author/illustrator Sean L. Moore’s latest rhyming picture book has a footwear obsession: Jane yearns for yellow boots. She drops subtle clues for her clueless parents by drawing pictures of bananas ... Read More »