Gadgets, actions and more in Snazzy Cat Capers: review and contest

Action, adventure and gadgets in this middle grade book. Enter for your chance to win a copy.

Toronto author speaks climate change, Donald Trump and Solomon’s Ring: review, blog tour and contest

Sometimes important details slip from my mind. When Dundurn Press asked me to participate in the Solomon's Ring blog tour late last year I had wondered if it mattered if I hadn't read the first book. While they said it...

9 questions for David Bird, consultant editor of DK Books Birds of Canada

Enter for your chance to win a copy of the beautiful Birds of Canada coffee table book DK Books Canada offered me the opportunity to speak with Prof. David M. Bird, the consultant editor of Birds of Canada and an...

Owlkids hosts contest in celebration of National Science Reading Day

National Science Reading Day, which takes place during Science Literacy Week, encourages Canadian children to get excited about science Get excited about the “endless possibilities of science” during National Science Reading Day, Sept. 20. Taking place during Science Literacy Week,...

Enter for a chance to win one of two copies of What She Knew by Gilly MacMillan

Have you read What She Knew by Gilly MacMillan (HarperCollins) yet? I really liked the book about eight-year-old Ben, who disappeared without a trace while out walking with is mom Rachel in the forest, and the search to find him....

Enter for your chance to win one of three copies of Jennifer Mathieu’s book Afterward

People often say they won't read young adult as they are not interested in teenaged angst they find within its pages. Personally I find that a rather narrowminded view; I quite like young adult books for a number of reasons,...