Edmonton Sun and Canadian Press release their top holiday picks

With all the snow we had here in Toronto over the weekend it’s definitely looking and feeling like the holiday season.  
Just in time to help you with your holiday shopping, The Edmonton Sun (December 5) has released its top gifts that will get people into the Christmas spirit. Included is Dorothy Duncan’s Canadians at Table: [...]

Fantastic Review of Ruby Kingdom

Patricia Bow’s latest teen fiction The Ruby Kingdom received lots of praise from a fantastic review by the blogging family, Our Gaggle of Girls. Here’s a little bit of what they thought of the first book in the Mythrin Series! The second book The Prism Blade is expected to arrive sometime in the [...]

45th Anniversary of the Last Hangings in Canada

Today, December 11th 2007, marks the 45th anniversary of the last to die by capital punishment in Canada. A fantastic blog by the name of Executed Today which focuses on a daily chronicle of historical executions has posted an in-depth interview with Robert J. Hoshowsky, author of The Last to Die.
If you are on [...]

Three Stars for A Deadly Distance

Deborah Mervold has written up a very detailed review of Heather Down’s A Deadly Distance in CM Magazine. Here’s a bit of it:
“Heather Down has written a detailed account of the harsh existence of life in Canada in the early nineteenth century … This historical fiction novel is divided into thirteen chapters, each of [...]

A 5-Star Review for The Ruby Kingdom

TeensReadToo.com reviewer Marta Morrsion, a fifth-grade teacher and mother living in Orange County, California has posted her review of Patricia Bow’s teen fiction novel The Ruby Kingdom. She gave it a 5-star rating! Here’s a little bit of why in Marta’s own words:
“I loved the theme to this story about accepting one’s self [...]

Quick Update: Ms Zephyr’s Notebook Nominated for Cybil

kc dyer’s Ms. Zephyr’s Notebook has been nominated for the Cybil Award, the Internet’s first literary award!  This is in the category of middle grade fiction and there are a lot of nominations but we know kc and Ms. Zephyr can beat out the competition.  Best of luck to them both!

Flamingnet Reviews A Deadly Distance and Speechless

Flamingnet, a YA-centric website that is dedicated to promoting reading has recently posted a review of A Deadly Distance by Heather Down, and Speechless by Valerie Sherrard.

A Deadly Distance was reviewed by a 13 year-old (JHap) who seems to have been quite taken with the story which is based on the history between the Beothuks [...]