Kids’ Books

Ben’s Bunny Trouble

By Daniel Wakeman; Dirk van Stralen, illus.

Children do not consider themselves cute. Of course, adults occasionally find them so, and only the most austere grown-up is immune from the awww moment. But that moment is no time to start writing a ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Happiness and Other Disorders

By Ahmad Saidullah

“Page after page of my sketchbook has drawings of glow-worms, butterflies, and geckoes and their tails that keep twitching even after they have dropped off.” So says Raheela, the narrator of “Fifteen Sketches of Rumi,” ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Commons

By Matthew Hughes

The Commons, the new novel from B.C.’s Matthew Hughes, is introduced by editor Robert J. Sawyer as a “fixup”: a novel knitted together out of a series of previously published short stories. In this case, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Lauchlin of the Bad Heart

By D.R. MacDonald

It takes only a few paragraphs to be captivated by the comfortable cadence of D.R. MacDonald’s storytelling. From the first page, the reader is drawn into the vibrant portrait he paints of Lauchlin MacLean and ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Glass Voices

By Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau writes about the interior lives of seemingly ordinary characters. In her newest novel, 71-year-old Lucy Caine is a woman few people would look at twice on the street, yet Lucy’s life has been ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Silent Raga

By Ameen Merchant

If you’d like to take a detailed fictional journey into the world of middle-class, Tamil-speaking Brahmin girls in India, this could be your novel. There can be no doubt that Ameen Merchant, a transplanted Indian ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Footstop Café

By Paulette Crosse

Documenting the lives of the offbeat and bizarre can make for compelling fiction. However, stuffing a novel beyond capacity with the weird and shocking can end up being simply boring. The Footstop Café, the first ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

When All You Have Is Hope

By Frank O’Dea with John Lawrence Reynolds

Meet Frank O’Dea, co-founder of Second Cup, Landmines International, and CANFAR, former alcoholic and streetperson, pilot, political wonk, husband, father, and motivational speaker. With this book, he adds “published author” to the list – but ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Hole Show

By Maya Merrick

My world seemed to quiver slightly after finishing Maya Merrick’s newest novel, The Hole Show. Merrick’s story reads like a fairy tale twisted inside out, or an afterschool special directed by Larry Clark, with choreography ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Violence in Canadian Homes

By Brian Vallée

At a time when the tally of women killed by their male partners far outnumbers the victims of terrorist acts, Brian Vallée’s book would seem a welcome perspective on a global crisis so commonplace that ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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