The Aunts Come Marching

By Bill Richardson; Cynthia Nugent, illus.

How many kids have livened up a rainy afternoon or a long car trip by singing the innumerable verses of “The Ants Came Marching”? And how often have parents, teachers, or camp leaders been driven ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Grumpy Bird

By Jeremy Tankard

He was too grumpy to eat. He was too grumpy to play. In fact, he was too grumpy to fly. ‘Looks like I’m walking today,’ said Bird.” And yet, Grumpy Bird, written and illustrated by ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Don’t Go Into the Forest!

By Veronika Martenova Charles; David Parkins, illus.

Tundra Books has published an unusual series of five books geared to both the educational and trade markets. Written at a Grade 2 level, these readers share the same format, characters, and theme – scary ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How It Happened in Peach Hill

By Marthe Jocelyn

Marthe Jocelyn has written before about the smoke-and-mirrors world of carnival entertainers: her 2003 novel Earthly Astonishments followed the fortunes of a girl in a Coney Island sideshow in the 1880s. In her new YA ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

1212: Year of the Journey

By Kathleen McDonnell

It’s 1233, and Abel is returning to France after serving the sultan in Cairo as teacher, adviser, and friend for the past 21 years. Abel had left France as part of the glorious Children’s Crusade ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Factory Girl

By Barbara Greenwood

In Factory Girl, veteran writer Barbara Greenwood chronicles life for early-20th-century child labourers in North America. To bring this history alive, Greenwood creates Emily, a young girl forced to leave school and find work after ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ellen Fremedon, Volunteer

By Joan Givner

To the uninitiated, the title of the new Ellen Fremedon novel looks about as promising as an arrowroot biscuit gone soft on a hospital tray. However, those familiar with the first two books in Joan ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Good-Looking) Hero

By Maureen Fergus

The unnamed 13-year-old narrator of first-time author Maureen Fergus’s novel thinks he has it pretty rough. After he’s insulted one too many schoolteachers and other authority figures, his mother forces him to keep a tape-recorded ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Pure Spring

By Brian Doyle

Several years have passed since Martin O’Boy’s adventures in Boy O’Boy. For some reason, Martin is no longer living with his family on Ottawa’s Papineau Street but is instead with the grandfather of his neighbourhood ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

One Winter Night

By Jennifer Lloyd; Lynn Ray, illus.

A rare thing it is to find a holiday offering for children untethered to the licensed-character marketing beast. Rarer still to find a book that gives shape to the sensibility of a Canadian Christmas without ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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