It’s hard to know why Quebec is so blessed in this way. Maybe we can attribute it to the two ...
By B. A. Markus
Bracegirdle, a.k.a. Paul Blackwell, is a high priest of the creeps. His talents for scaring the pants off ...
By B. A. Markus
Hell Never Burns is part one of Fournier’s exploration of Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s life. His English ...
By B. A. Markus
French-speaking kids have made Amos Daragon a phenomenon and Perro has written twelve books chronicling Amos’s ...
By B. A. Markus
It’s only the bravest of warriors who take up the gauntlet and teach poetry to high school students.
By B. A. Markus
Believe it or not, there are still some people out there who think that young adult (YA) literature is written by people who aren’t smart enough to write for adults.
By B. A. Markus
Highlights of the season's books for young people
By Andrea Belcham
Fifteen-year-old Ariane has been bounced between different foster families and schools ever since her mother ...
By Andrea Belcham
Carefree George the moose is munching his lakeside lunch when disaster strikes: a forest fire rages across the ...
By Andrea Belcham
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
In a kitchen drawer where each utensil has a clear purpose, Spork - the offspring of a spoonish mum and a forkish ...
By Andrea Belcham
Dubuc's cyclical picture book uses bright and deceptively simplistic coloured-pencil drawings to relay a personal ...
By Andrea Belcham