CHILDREN can easily get bored on holiday. Best to prepare well and make sure they have some beautifully designed, captivating non-fiction, as well as brain-stretching science fiction. This year, ...

It’s that time of the year when you’re making your list, checking it twice, for gifts that spark a love of science for the kids in your life. Ira talks with Mahnaz Dar, young readers’ editor at Kirkus ...

Somerville’s R.A. Dines draws on a background in tech as an author an adventure-filled coming-of-age story. As a reader of dystopian fiction, though, one of her key themes in “Moon” is the dangers of ...

Got a gamer kid who loves to play video games but maybe doesn’t love to read…yet? Incorporate their love of video games into their book choices! Introduce gaming fiction books that they’ll want to ...

The time has come to send 2023 and all of its highs and lows packing and to ring in the new year. While it’s impossible to say now what 2024 holds in store for all of us, there is one thing that I ...

Every month, I trawl through publishers’ catalogues so I can tell you about the new science fiction being released. And every month, I’m disappointed to see so much more fantasy on publishers’ lists ...

S.K. Ali and Rosena Fung are both nominated for two prizes for the 2025 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards. The seven ...