The Door in the Mountain

Caitlin Sweet, author of three previous novels for adults, makes her YA debut with The Door in the Mountain. The book tells of a world (inspired by ancient Crete) where beauty and violence rule, and ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Nethergrim

By Matthew Jobin

Canadian-born anthropologist Matthew Jobin launches his fiction career with a magic-filled quest in the classic mould. Our hero is young Edmund Bale, the eldest son of tavern owners who wants nothing more than to study ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Outside In

By Sarah Ellis

Sarah Ellis’s latest middle-grade novel tackles issues of waste, consumerism, and family in a Borrowers-style tale about close encounters between those who live in conventional society and those who exist outside of it. When she’s ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

If I Wrote a Book About You

By Stephany Aulenback; Denise Holmes (illus.)

If I Wrote a Book About You, by Nova Scotia writer and editor Stephany Aulenback and Chicago-based illustrator Denise Holmes, follows a mother and daughter through a typical day, during which the mother tells the ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Wow Wow and Haw Haw

By George Murray; Michael Pittman (illus.)

The world of children’s fables is a veritable zoo of interspecies moral-making. Newfoundland poet George Murray and painter Michael Pittman join the fray with their first picture book, starring a fox named Wow Wow, a ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ From There to Here

By Laurel Croza; Matt James (illus.)

The young girl from Laurel Croza’s 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award–winning I Know Here has moved across the country and, as she wistfully explains, “It is different here, not the same as there.” In ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Peach Girl

By Raymond Nakamura; Rebecca Bender (illus.)

In his engaging debut, author Raymond Nakamura puts a feminist bent on the Japanese folk tale Momotaro (Peach Boy). In Nakamura’s version, a young girl emerges from a giant peach discovered on the doorstep of ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online

By Paula Todd

"The Web was designed as an instrument to prevent misunderstandings." So says Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Quoted early on in Paula Todd's new book, Lee's comment elicits about ... Read More »

June 23, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Night Canada Stood Still: How the 1995 Quebec Referendum Nearly Cost Us Our Country

By Robert Wright

In the pantheon of history-altering near-misses, few political events have left as large and lasting a “What if?” as the 1995 Quebec referendum. On Oct. 30 of that year, Quebec’s citizens voted by the thinnest ... Read More »

June 19, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Polyamorous Love Song

By Jacob Wren

In a letter to a friend, Franz Kafka once wrote, “I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a ... Read More »

June 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

The Door in the Mountain

The Nethergrim

Outside In

If I Wrote a Book About You

Wow Wow and Haw Haw

★ From There to Here

Peach Girl

Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online

The Night Canada Stood Still: How the 1995 Quebec Referendum Nearly Cost Us Our Country

★ Polyamorous Love Song

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