Books for Children from Newfoundland & Labrador 2019 (Part Two): Running the Goat Books and Broadsides
Running the Goat Books & Broadsides is a micro-press specializing in letterpress-printed and fine trade …
Running the Goat Books & Broadsides is a micro-press specializing in letterpress-printed and fine trade …
Occasionally I get children’s books sent to me and I tend to put them aside …
Phantom of Fire is #5 in the Dylan Maples Adventures. This time, his parents take him on a trip to Bathurst New Brunswick where Dylan and his new friend Antonine encounter the Phantom Fire Ship of Chaleur Bay.
Riverview, New Brunswick’s Chocolate River Publishing was founded to put New Brunswick on the map …
15-year-old Aileen never feels good enough to please her mother. When she pries up the floorboard at her aunt’s house, she sheds a light on the dark secret she worked so hard to forget. Why does no one ever talk about her baby sister Claire and what happened to her?
Sixteen-year-old Tamera lives in La Cresta, a rural fishing community on a Caribbean island. Despite having the support of relatives, including her dad, Earl, her elder sister, Mary and her best friend and first cousin, Jan, she struggles to deal with her mom’s mental health issues and the absence of her boyfriend, Dalton who moves out of the village to work.
These three new titles from Newfoundland’s Breakwater Books have something for everyone, from very young …
Written for middle-grade readers, TIMEFLIES takes the time travel trope in a different direction: the …
Manbeena Bhullar Sandhu holds a degree in substance abuse and addictions, and a master’s degree …
[dropcap]Glynis [/dropcap]Guevara was born in Barataria, Trinidad. She was shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary short …
It has been two years since Algonquin Spring, was released (Book Two of the Algonquin …
Award-winning New Brunswick author Susan White’s newest young adult/middle-grader novel is Waiting for Still Water, …
World War II Internment Camp B70, better known as Ripples Internment Camp is a little-known …
New Brunswick author Robert Rayner is the author of three adult novels, nine young adult …
Miramichi’s resident young people’s author Valerie Sherrard has had many of her books shortlisted and awarded in various categories, and The Glory Wind and Rain Shadow are no exceptions. I am reviewing these middle-grade reader books together since they both take place in the fictional town of Junction, Manitoba in the mid 1940s, and Rain Shadow compliments some of the story lines in The Glory Wind, so for the most emotional impact, The Glory Wind should be read first, but this is by no means a requirement.