Lobster Press has rekindled interest in the L. M Montgomery poem The Way to Slumbertown, which was first ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Young Readers
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
Monique Polak’s On the Game, inspired by real events, revolves around Yolande, who is sweet on an older boy ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Lori Weber’s debut YA novel, Klepto, tells the story of a teenage girl who takes drastic action to gain ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
ABC Letters in the Library is Bonnie Farmer’s alphabetical tribute to the heart of Reading Central. Adults, ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
In No More Pranks by Monique Polak, Pete plays a whopper of a prank on his vice-principal. This earns him a ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
In Valerie Coulman’s I Am a Ballerina, Molly attends the ballet for her birthday, and is inspired to become ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
Elaine Arsenault’s Doggie in the Window tells of a pet-store dog’s longing to be adopted by the seamstress ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte
The Quest Library Series, published by XYZ Publishing, contains more than twenty biographies of Canadians whose ...
By Carol-Ann Hoyte