Given the onscreen exploits of Johnny Depp and his Caribbean cronies in recent years, there’s a high degree of pirate literacy on school playgrounds all over Canada – backed by a huge interest in all ... Read More »
November 3, 2008
Seven brave women are profiled in No Girls Allowed, a slim graphic novel written by Susan Hughes and illustrated by Willow Dawson (both of whom are based in Toronto), including the Egyptian pharaoh, Hatshepsut; Alfhild, ... Read More »
November 3, 2008
Cton is an orange, vaguely humanoid cartoon creature with pointy ears and a monobrow. His jelly-loving best friend Blob is, well, a big, green blob who leaves a trail of slime wherever he goes. Both ... Read More »
November 3, 2008
The nearly 80-year-old artist Robert Bateman’s wildlife paintings are both photo-realistic and strikingly animated – imbuing their subjects with life, even when they are depicted doing nothing more than sunning themselves. The paintings are, therefore, ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Doors can be a metaphor for life, with the potential to link us directly with our past, present, and future. In Traitors’ Gate, Whitehorse author Claire Eamer explains this symbolism through the history of eight ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Told entirely in rhyming couplets, Toronto (by way of Vancouver and the U.K.) author Robert Paul Weston’s Zorgamazoo is a story rich in clever wordplay, unusual characters, and fantastic circumstances. Katrina Katrell is a clever ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
B.C. author Laura Trunkey’s dryly funny debut novel is centred around the misadventures of Lily Brook Academy’s newest student, Danny Chandelier. Danny suffers from a malady most distressing: an astonishing capacity for adequateness. Eager to ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Most of the charm of Susan Juby’s newest novel for teens comes from the voice of her main character, Sherman Mack, one helluva kid living in Nanaimo, B.C., who thinks he can crack his high ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
The persistence of global poverty inspires a kind of latter-day colonialism by which good-hearted people from wealthy enclaves receive kudos for travel to places most of us would rather not hear about. While celebrities such ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Wolf Man, the fourth novel in Brampton, Ontario, writer Edo van Belkom’s Wolf Pack series, begins with an attack that has dangerous repercussions for the inhabitants – human, animal, and in-between – of Redstone, B.C. ... Read More »
November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
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