Think Again Harry Shields Radio Show
J.G. Rowling'southward Harry Potter serial still has young readers under its spell, but The Next Chapter's children's book panellists offer y'all some alternatives to the ever-popular boy sorcerer.
Michele Landsberg picks:
This is her start YA novel and information technology'southward deliciously enjoyable, poignant, rueful and hilarious. Information technology's gear up in St. John'due south, Due north.Fifty. and it's about a 16-twelvemonth-sometime girl, this wonderful, spunky Flannery, who's in love with cynical bad boy Tyrone. Moore shows united states that Tyrone is suffering, and that it's not romantic, merely painful to exist that emotionally airtight downwardly. The writing is rich, exuberant and juicy. I was actually bursting into tears and laughing out loud on some pages, and that doesn't happen very often when you're reading lone. It'south my number ane selection for summer reading.
Malaika's Costume by Nadia Hohn, illustrated past Irene Luxbacher
Petty Malaika lives in the Caribbean, and is existence brought up by her grandmother while her female parent has gone to Canada to earn a living. This is certainly a common story in Toronto, and one we need to hear more nearly. Malaika is aroused that her mother has not sent coin for her to take a costume at Carnival, then she finds materials to make one with her grandmother'south help. It'southward a uncomplicated but gratifying story and what I love nigh it are the glorious pictures, which are saturated with tropical colours.
Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush by Carol Shields and Patrick Crowe, illustrated by Selena Goulding
The original script written by Ballad Shields for an unfinished play was used equally the basis for a graphic novel with an introduction past Margaret Atwood. It'south a marvelously foreign experience to see this time and setting in a graphic novel and in Susanna Moodie'southward own words, which are out of sync with the style of graphic novels only which make information technology all the more striking. What information technology shows and so strongly is the power of class. I think kids x and up would be fascinated past this glimpse of the beginnings of Canada.
Michele Landsberg is a writer.
Ken Setterington picks:
Mom, Dad, Our Books, and Me past Danielle Marcotte, illustrated by Josée Bisaillon
Information technology'southward a book well-nigh reading, just it goes through how reading isn't just about books. They read canvass music, telling wonderful stories fabricated of sound. The fisherman reads the sky for coming storms. It'due south merely how reading affects everyone. The illustrations are fun and engaging and information technology celebrates the idea that reading matters. It ends with a little boy sitting on a tower of books: "Thanks to books, I find balance, I climb high, I follow new roads and I move forward."
Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Customs past Robin Stevenson
It'due south very festive. It's vivid. It'due south colourful. It gives history and it celebrates Pride. Stevenson'southward been touring and it's surprising how schools hesitate when they find out the book'southward about Pride. Here'south a book about celebration and nosotros even so take a long means to go in a lot of cases. I retrieve that's why the volume came about; there is a book about every holiday, but there isn't really a volume well-nigh Pride.
Mission Bombay past Mahtab Narsimham
It's a center reader novel about a young boy, Dylan.
His best friend Rohit is going to Bharat after three years in the United States, but he has an aunt who wants him to stay in India. She controls everything because she has all the money.
Then Dylan goes with him and he is discovering what it'south like in India. Information technology'due south a funny book and it'due south a neat volume near friendship. It reminded me a lot of having a best friend at that age.
Ken Setterington is a sometime librarian and children'due south author.
The panellists' comments have been edited and condensed.
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