When life and story intersect: that's where this story takes place. (And isn't that the best place ever to set a story?) Groundwood - House of Anansi, 2012 But, okay, in the beginning, when readers step aboard That Night's Train, they are actually in a railway carriage. "The train
You could read this book because it has won a tonne of awards. (It won the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature (Text), the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award.) You could read it because Paul Yee has a solid
When I was a girl, I heard Gordon Lightfoot's albums often enough that I knew the words to his songs as well as I knew the lyrics on my Sesame Street records. Once, my mom brought home a recording from the library: one of his ballads with an illustrated book
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is telling the stories of her Mayan girlhood in The Girl from Chimel. (So it turns out that you can discover a Nobel Peace Prize winner by reading a storybook, by dabbling in the backlist of a favourite indie press.) Although born into poverty in
"Being 16 is officially the worst thing I've ever been." That's Kimberly Keiko Cameron (aka Skim) speaking. "Why do the students call you Skim?" her English teacher, Ms Archer asks. "Because I'm not," Skim answers. Adolescence is such a horrid time: you're called what you're not, you want
