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Author/illustrator Mike Kerr talks about love and his latest picture book, Love is for Roaring

Head and shouler image of Mike Kerr the author for Love is for Roaring, wearing a black shirt with a salt and pepper beard and mustache and brown glasses looking to the right of the camera

Canadian author/illustrator Mike Kerr talks about Valentine's, love and expressing it and his latest book, Love is for Roaring.

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Q&A with Canadian author Patricia Miller-Schroeder and her book Sisters of the Wolf

Head and shoulder shot of Patricia Miller-Schroeder, a Canadian author, who is wearing a red sweater, black glasses with short, bobbed hair

I interview Canadian author Patricia Miller-Schroeder about her book Sisters of the Wolf, a young adult/middle grade book 35 years in the making.

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OCD, Crete and hockey – books reviewed

Front cover image of OCDaniel with drawn on picture on a Q-Tip on a blue background with numbers in grey written and crossed out. A maple leaf in in a white circle on the cover.

Another great book from Wesley KIng, this one with a young man trying to deal with OCD alone until he meets someone who may see right through him. Also reviewed, the latest by Nadia Marks, and a hockey picture book.

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Friendship and book lovers – middle grade and young adult books reviewed

Front cover image of The Theory of Hummingbirds of a silouette of a young girl standing in the brush in front of a blue and pink sky with birds around here

Two middle grade books and a young adult book about books, friendship and the ice age.

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Toronto’s Jennifer Turliuk helps people find happiness in their careers with her new book

Head and shoulder photo of Jennifer Turliuk, wearing a red jacket with a white shirt and holding her book How to Figure out What to do with Your Life (next).

Interview with Toronto author Jennifer Turliuk about her Dundurn Press book How to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life. Jennifer talks about the importance of finding a job that makes you happy and how you can do it.

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Reviewing holiday reads – The Rest of the Story, Orphan Train and the Ocean at the End of the Lane, among others

Front oover of Sarah Dessen's The Rest of the Story with the scripting font on a blue front cover with two wooden docks on either side and a row boat in the middle

I read a fair bit on my holidays and review The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman and Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, among others.

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Book Time: 7 summer reads

Child jumping off a dock into clear waters.

If you are looking for a perfect summer read, I have listed out some of my favourites including two debut novels - Haven Point and Hurricane Summer. This blog originally was posted in Newmarkettoday.ca

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Q&A with Brenden Carlson about science, writing and Midnight, a ‘gritty, tech-noir’ book set in the 1930s

Head and shoulder shot of Brenden Carlson in a grey T-shirt in front of a blurred out garden.

What a great interview with Ontario-based author Brenden Carlson's whose "gritty, tech-noir version of 1930s Manhattan" comes out July 20. It's from Dundurn.

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Dogs, magical races, fitting in and David Bowie: picture books and graphic novels reviewed

Front cover image of Gam Prix Racers of a pink-haired girl sitting in racing car with eyes and a whale's tale and a variety of other creatures and their race cars

I review two picture books and two graphic novels for kids about friendship, fitting in and David Bowie.

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