On a Medieval Day contains nine sophisticated stories depicting life during the Middle Ages. Narrated by teen and preteen boys and girls, the stories extend beyond the Eurocentric realm of knights and Gothic castles to ... Read More »
November 17, 2010
The alliterative, occasionally rhyming sentences that ambush the reader from the very first page of Toronto author Richard Thake’s novel are a little like the fire-breathing bats that beset the titular character in the Evil ... Read More »
November 17, 2010
Katerina Svetlana, the daughter of a woodcarver, has a rare gift: she can whittle wood with such perfection that her creations often reveal uncomfortable secrets about people, causing them to fear her. First-time YA author ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Authors who incorporate, interpret, or subvert Arthurian legends in works of contemporary fantasy take a huge risk: the failure rate of such books is staggeringly high. Every so often, though, a writer is skilled enough ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In her fiction and non-fiction, Deborah Ellis has relentlessly brought to light the ways in which war and social injustice affect young people around the world. She continues to do so in her powerful new ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Most readers want fiction that is populated by likeable characters, but in the right hands, an unlikable character can add a bracing note of dissonance to a story. Sarah N. Harvey’s Death Benefits features Arthur ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
This stuffed little doggy has a very hard time of it. He is a “loosely-knit” dog with a red rag tail, and when his unsympathetic parents go on an afternoon’s outing, they leave him locked ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
The young girl who narrates Grandma’s Gloves enjoys spending time with her grandmother, an avid gardener. Together they water the flowers and tend the garden, then drink tea and eat cookies or homemade doughnuts. Her ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
“In every picture, in every land, the queen always held a purse in her hand.” So begins prolific Toronto author Frieda Wishinsky’s latest offering for young readers. Just what is in that purse? wonders Kay, ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books
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