Dragon Tide

In her new picture book, Dragon Tide, Toronto writer and teacher Ingrid Lee taps the typical childhood experience of working hard on a sand sculpture only to see it wrecked by other people or the ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Scotch River

By Linda Little

Casper Hutt is a barely literate Alberta ranch hand and former professional bull rider whose life is changed by a piece of registered mail. He has been left the deed to some land in Scotch ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Winter in Hollywood

By Richard Teleky

By the sound of it, Winter in Hollywood should be a warm, glamorous affair packed with decorated palm trees, brushes with celebrities, and yoga classes full of people grimly working out their New Year’s resolutions. ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Saving Rome

By Megan K. Williams

People have a tendency to romanticize places like Rome. We think of ancient ruins, glamorous Italians with dazzling smiles and sexy accents, fabulous cafés, and zippy red sports cars. But once you’ve lived there, breathing ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Virgin Spy

By Krista Bridge

This engaging debut collection of nine short stories by Toronto author Krista Bridge contains an assortment of compelling, intriguing, likable, moody, and introspective heroines. Stories in The Virgin Spy focus on domestic life and the ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Havana Best Friends

By José Latour

José Latour’s new novel delivers everything one could ask for in a mystery: suspense, strong characters, an intriguing plot with many twists, violence that serves the story and ramps up the tension, and a setting ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Baby Khaki’s Wings

By Anar Ali

Anar Ali’s first book is made up of a series of seven diverse and compelling stories centred on the Ismaili community, a Muslim sect with origins in India but with a wide diaspora that includes ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry

By Michael P.J. Kennedy, ed.

It’s bad enough that hockey monopolizes both television and the national consciousness for the bulk of each year — now it’s invading the poetry shelves as well? What is the world coming to? I would ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

★ Roundup at the Palace

By Kathleen Cook Waldron; Alan & Lea Daniel, illus.

One week before Freedom to Read Week in 1992, the International Woodworkers of America union in B.C. demanded that the Sunshine Coast School District remove all copies of a picture book called Maxine’s Tree from ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books