BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The Master's Apprentice
by Rick Jacobson; Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson, illus.
When Marco is accepted as a junior apprentice to young Michelangelo Buonarroti, he is excited and fearful. His father, a chemist, has trained him to...
Skim
by Mariko Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki, illus.
This graphic novel is a winner. Skim is a unique creation by Mariko Tamaki, a Toronto-based writer and playwright, and her cousin, illustrator Jillian Tamaki,...
Super Crocs & Monster Wings: Modern Animals' Ancient Past
by Claire Eamer
Yukon writer Claire Eamer raises two questions here for young readers: First, what did the extinct ancestors of today’s animals look like? Second, what forces...
Lucy Maud Montgomery
by Elizabeth MacLeod; John Mantha, illus.
This is a big year for Anne of Green Gables fans, marking the 100th anniversary of the famous book’s publication. Kids Can Press salutes this...
The Wright Brothers
by Elizabeth MacLeod; Andrej Krystoforski, illus.
This is a big year for Anne of Green Gables fans, marking the 100th anniversary of the famous book’s publication. Kids Can Press salutes this...
Passion for Fashion: Careers in Style
by Jeanne Beker; Nathalie Dion, illus.
Surely no one is better positioned to advise aspiring style-makers how to break into the fashion industry than Fashion Television creator Jeanne Beker. Her behind-the-seams...
Pain & Wastings
by Carrie Mac
Carrie Mac’s story meets the guidelines and conventions of the Orca Soundings series with brisk efficiency. First-person narrator, present tense, colloquial language, limited vocabulary (at...
Last Chance for Paris
by Sylvia McNicoll
Fourteen-year-old Zanna is banished to the Alberta icefields with her father and twin brother, while her mother sips espresso on the Champs-Elysées. All because of...
The Ghost of Northumberland Strait
by Lori Knutson
When Charly moves to P.E.I. with her mother after her parents’ divorce, she has trouble adjusting to her new life in her Grammie’s house. Grammie...
Claire and the Bakery Thief
by Janice Poon
With its first-ever graphic novel, Kids Can Press hopes to appeal to readers who are ready to move beyond picture books. Good intentions, but Claire...
Goose Girl
by Joe and Matrine McLellan; Rhian Brynjolson, illus.
With this new offering, the authors of Pemmican’s successful Nanabosho series of picture books maintain their commitment to aboriginal storytelling but depart from that series...
Kisses Kisses Baby-O!
by Sheree Fitch; HildaRose, illus.
Sheree Fitch, winner of the 1998 Vicky Metcalf award for a body of work that has inspired Canadian children, has tried her hand at poetry,...
Yellow Moon, Apple Moon
by Pamela Porter; Matt James, illus.
Yellow Moon, Apple Moon, Time to sleep, See you soon.” So begins this rhythmic picture book, which tells of the nighttime ritual of a child...