Day's Lee tells stories to teach her nieces and nephews about family history. The Montreal author drew on her ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Young Readers
In Monique Polak's Home Invasion (Orca Book Publishers), Josh doesn't believe his mother and eccentric ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Marie-Louise Gay's Caramba (Groundwood Books) is set in a world where cats fly. But unlike his fellow ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
In author-illustrator Mélanie Watt's latest book (Kids Can Press), Scaredy Squirrel's fear of real and perceived ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
In Lori Weber’s Split, Sandra’s life begins unravelling when her mother abandons the family, leaving Sandra ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Renée Schwarz’s Birdhouses (Kids Can Press) teaches readers how to construct eye-catching dwellings for ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Bearcub and Mama by Sharon Jennings (Kids Can Press) celebrates growing up and the mother-and-child bond. ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Lobster Press has rekindled interest in the L. M Montgomery poem The Way to Slumbertown, which was first ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
La Montagne Sécrete/The Secret Mountain offers an international celebration of sleepytime music. Dodo la ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Before Deborah Cowley spent a week in Africa in 1989 with Quebec physician Lucille Teasdale, the latter was ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Earth to Audrey by Susan Hughes (Kids Can Press) shows how easy it is to assume we know others. A boy named ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Emily’s Piano by Charlotte Gingras (Annick Press) tells the story of a girl who mourns the loss of her ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte