Young Readers

George’s Antlers

Carefree George the moose is munching his lakeside lunch when disaster strikes: a forest fire rages across the ...

By Andrea Belcham

A Night on the Town

In Merola’s nocturnal tale, Pickles McPhee is a blue-striped, rural monster who hitches a ride to the big city in ...

By Andrea Belcham

Spork

In a kitchen drawer where each utensil has a clear purpose, Spork - the offspring of a spoonish mum and a forkish ...

By Andrea Belcham

In Front of My House

Dubuc's cyclical picture book uses bright and deceptively simplistic coloured-pencil drawings to relay a personal ...

By Andrea Belcham

Somewhere in Blue

In her entrancing first novel, Somewhere in Blue, Gillian Cummings addresses the topic of teen suicide with ...

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The Archeolojesters

Preteens with a fondness for Indiana Jones will be entertained and educated by Andreas Oertel's The ...

By Andrea Belcham

Camp Fossil Eyes

Another book about an unusual summer vacation is Mark Abley's Camp Fossil Eyes. Jill and her younger ...

By Andrea Belcham

Human Nature

Although it assumes the format of a children's picture book, Jocelyn Pinet's Human Nature seems best suited ...

By Andrea Belcham

Here Comes the Bride

In Beatrice Masini's modern fairytale, Here Comes the Bride, Filomena is a plain seamstress who's ever the ...

By Andrea Belcham

Topsy-Turvy Town

Author and illustrator Luc Melanson pays homage to the grand imaginative powers of children with Topsy-Turvy ...

By Andrea Belcham