Hardcover, 48 pages Published February 16th 2016 by Dial Books Source: Publisher I haven’t read anything by Harlan Coben so I cannot judge his writing fully from The Magical Fantastical […]
Last year around the same time, I deviated from the monthly theme and brought comic and webcomic recommendations from Van CAF. Apparently, this is about to be an annual tradition because […]
Dan Bar-el is an award-winning children’s author, educator and storyteller. His writing includes chapter books, picture books, and most recently, a graphic novel. For the past twenty years, Dan has […]
As promised, I have another list of books to recommend– this time, largely of Black musicians, poets, and philosophers. Unlike the last list, however, not every book here is non-fiction. […]
See, in Indian schools (the ones I attended, at least) we focused only briefly on the Civil Rights Movement*, and knew very little about figures like Martin Luther King Jr., […]
This week I present to you two books that are an interesting mix of nonsense and non-fiction. Math Curse and Science Verse, created by author/illustrator team Jon Scieska and Lane Smith, […]
Hi all! It’s the first day of Free-For-All month and I thought I’d just have a bit of fun posting about some of the wonderful picturebooks that I’ve seen over […]
The Enemy by Swedish author Davide Cali and published in Australia by @wilkinsfarago is a unique picturebook that I stumbled across while processing the special orders @KKBOttawa this past […]
Since I started working at the local children’s bookstore, Kaleidoscope Kids Books, here in Ottawa, I have had the pleasure of discovering and uncovering fabulous local authors and Canada only […]
Review Copy from Simply Read Books, released January 2014. Simply Read Books presents first time author/illustrator Lindsey Yankey, a local from British Columbia, telling her tale of the little […]
The Book Wars 