Short for Chameleon

Cam Redden is something of a chameleon. It’s his job as a part-time employee of the Almost Family Surrogate Agency to blend into other people’s lives, whether he’s hired to play a bereaved-but-stoic grandson or ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Land Beyond the Wall: An Immigration Story

By Veronika Martenova Charles

Given the abundance of stories about refugees and immigration released over the last couple of years, it might seem that Toronto author-illustrator Veronika Martenova Charles’s latest picture book is simply another among the throng. But ... Read More »

June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Polly MacCauley’s Finest, Divinest, Woolliest Gift of All

By Darka Erdelji (ill.); Sheree Fitch

In this poetry-infused folktale set in the village of River John, Polly MacCauley needs a rare breed of sheep to finish a lifelong knitting project, and Star, an orphaned lamb, is the divine animal that ... Read More »

June 8, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Stay

By Katherine Lawrence

At first glance, Stay appears to be modest in length, form, and story. But within the spare pages of this middle-grade novel in verse is a powerful narrative about a family in transition, and the ... Read More »

June 7, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Road Signs That Say West

By Sylvia Gunnery

Sisters Hanna, Megan, and Claire have just waved off their parents at the airport in Halifax when Hanna announces her plan: while Mum and Dad are in Europe, the three of them are going on ... Read More »

June 5, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

By The Time You Read This

By Jennifer Lanthier; Patricia Storms (ill.)

Author Jennifer Lanthier uses a fun format and some great vocabulary to shepherd young readers through her engaging picture book, which begins on a mysterious note: in the wake of some dramatic – and initially ... Read More »

May 29, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Way Back Home

By Allan Stratton

Zoe Bird’s world is cracking apart. The teenaged narrator of Allan Stratton’s latest YA novel lives in a small Ontario town where she struggles against the oppressive influence of her narrow-minded parents at home and ... Read More »

May 29, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Stop Feedin’ da Boids!

By James Sage; Pierre Pratt (ill.)

The opening spread of American author James Sage’s Stop Feedin’ da Boids! paints a lazy pastoral landscape, idyllic green and dotted with free-roaming animals. Bunnies frolic, a lone horse drinks, a clump of cows graze… ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Colette’s Lost Pet (Mile End Stories, Book 1)

By Isabelle Arsenault

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Birthdays: Beyond Cake and Ice Cream

By Dani Tate-Stratton; Nikki Tate

Birthdays: Beyond Cake and Ice Cream is a book that lives up to its title. Its three chapters explore birthdays on an individual and global level. Salient facts are interwoven with personal anecdotes, making for ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

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