Kingsport, Nova Scotia’s Major Tripe was a noted prankster, but no one laughed at his final joke – bequeathing his castle on the St. Lawrence River to his closest friends, all of whom despised one ... Read More »
January 5, 2009
A pirate ship, a treasure map, and a crew of orphans: how could even the most reluctant young reader resist such a premise? In her first novel, author Rachelle Delaney, a graduate of the MFA ... Read More »
January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
The previous collaborations between Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter were elegant books that broke concepts of size or quantity down to their essence. Spare in text and image almost to the point of being like ... Read More »
January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Big and Small, Room for All is the first children’s book Toronto’s Gillian Newland has illustrated. Let’s all hope she decides to stick around. Her gorgeous watercolours add immeasurably to the sense of wonder and ... Read More »
January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Oh, Canada! is the fourth installment in Kids Can’s series of picture books on Canada aimed at early readers, and the second one both written and illustrated by Per-Henrik Gürth (the first two were written ... Read More »
January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Bird suffers a nasty bonk on the head while playing catch with his pal, Raccoon. When he starts to cry, Raccoon takes him to visit all their animal friends, one by one, hoping someone can ... Read More »
January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Declaring Hiromi Goto’s new novel at least 50 pages too short for its visionary plot and complex heroine may sound like a backhanded compliment, but the fact is that Half World does not do full ... Read More »
January 5, 2009
The world of the faerie courts, and tales surrounding the unseen world in general, have been popular subjects for storytellers for hundreds of years, long before Shakespeare codified much of the material in A Midsummer ... Read More »
December 17, 2008
As Mount Vesuvius smokes and rumbles ominously in the distance, Lucius Quinctillius Claudianus, a frail old historian, writes what he knows will be his last volume of Roman history. Having chronicled the 10 emperors whose ... Read More »
December 17, 2008
Meet Wilson. No first name necessary. All he’s ever known is a life of crime. He has chosen a criminal path even in the face of his family members’ attempts to dissuade him. His method ... Read More »
December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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