★ Harry and Walter

Next-door neighbours Harry and Walter are best friends. Harry is four and three-quarters and Walter is 92 and a half. Despite the generation gap, the “boys” do everything together, from making paper airplanes to building ... Read More »

March 16, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend

By Alan Cumyn

A cute new transfer student usually causes a fair bit of commotion in high school, but when that transfer student happens to be a dinosaur who should have been extinct for the last 65 million ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Saving Montgomery Sole

By Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki gives good misfit. In a YA field crowded with stock outcasts, Tamaki’s weirdos stand out for never being merely the sum of a few obvious quirks or emotions. Nor are they princes- and ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Mom, Dad, Our Books, and Me

By Danielle Marcotte; Josée Bisaillon (illus.); Karen Li (trans.)

Budding bibliophiles will find much to enjoy in two new picture books that celebrate the joys of reading. These love songs to literacy each have their own stylish flair, from a bubbly let’s-get-this-party-started jig to ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Big Surprise for Little Card

By Charise Mericle Harper; Anna Raff (illus.)

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances

By Elizabeth MacLeod

In her latest book for middle-graders, prolific non-fiction author Elizabeth MacLeod presents six stories about mysterious disappearances in chronological order, starting with the 17th-century North Carolina settlement of Roanoke Island, and ending with a 1990 ... Read More »

February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community

By Robin Stevenson

In her first work of non-fiction, YA novelist Robin Stevenson uses the gay pride parade as a focus to present middle-grade readers with some background to the huge shift in Canadian social dynamics over the ... Read More »

February 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Hill

By Karen Bass

Alberta-based Geoffrey Bilson Award–winning author Karen Bass draws on the Cree legend of the Wîhtiko for her latest YA novel, which blends adventure, horror, and some good old-fashioned coming-of-age wisdom. En route to spend the ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The White Cat and the Monk

By Jo Ellen Bogart; Sydney Smith (illus.)

If ever there was a book that could calm a child and draw her into meditative contemplation (perhaps right before bed?), The White Cat and the Monk is it. Guelph, Ontario–based author Jo Ellen Bogart ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Finding Hope

By Colleen Nelson

Cerebral, straight-laced 15-year-old Hope Randall is eager to leave her small town of Lumsville and escape her apathetic parents and 18-year-old meth-addicted brother, Eric. Once the town’s star hockey player and bound for the NHL, ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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