Jessica Scott Kerrin’s first foray into the world of picture books, The Better Tree Fort, has yielded a gentle, beautiful story that is heartwarming and as perfect as Russell’s tree fort itself
by : Lisa Doucet
by : Lisa Doucet
Jessica Scott Kerrin’s first foray into the world of picture books, The Better Tree Fort, has yielded a gentle, beautiful story that is heartwarming and as perfect as Russell’s tree fort itself
by : Lisa Doucet
Another delightful and quirky picture book offering from Running the Goat Books & Broadsides, PB’s story is sure to charm young listeners
by : Carla Gunn
Creative narratives about environmental crisis are acts of psychological adaptation
by : Eva Crocker
In The High-Rise in Fort Fierce, Carlucci’s characters are complex and his strength is that he captures how people can be capable of both love and unforgivable brutality
by : Lisa Doucet
Lisa Doucet reviews Shauntay Grant’s Africville, which is a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books
by : Atlantic Books Today
by : Sarah Mian
“No one would care about me, or my opinions, if it weren’t for my books, so I might as well enjoy it. It’s not like I’m a Kardashian.”
by : Erica Butler
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” –Alan Turing
by : Elizabeth Johnston
Elizabeth Johnston reviews Trudi Johnson’s All Good Intentions: “The issue of identity—how we create a sense of it for ourselves in the present and how much of it is determined by those who have come before us—is one we all grapple with”
by : Chris Benjamin
Snuggle down with 18 Atlantic Canadian books that are generating buzz this autumn
by : Lisa Doucet
Lisa Doucet reviews Goodbye Girls by Lisa Harrington (Nimbus Publishing)
by : Chris Benjamin
Our latest issue explores the ways young people are creating a new and improved world for themselves
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