Their former disabilities - addiction to narcotics, sudden anger, a lack of focus - are reduced. They have each been given an unidentified substance that gives them supernatural abilities - to read thoughts, to see ghosts, to have incredible strength or superior mental power. Sometimes, two writers are better than one, and this may be the case in The Lost Causes by American authors Jessica Koosed Etting and Alyssa Embree Schwartz (Kids Can Press, 344 pages, $19, hardcover).įive troubled teens in the same high school are recruited by the FBI for a secret assignment: to find a murderer. Harbridge’s clear and simple prose makes this picture book a tribute to one of the joys of winter. With backyard rinks and cleared spaces on our rivers, many youngsters will identify with these images. The children wait for the full moon to bring ice to the beaver flood as they warm up their skates around a campfire.

With a touch of nostalgia, Matt James provides the colourful illustrations that remind us there was a time when playing hockey was simpler and less expensive. What is more Canadian than skating outdoors on the first day the pond freezes over?Įtobicoke, Ont., author Paul Harbridge recalls the excitement of playing hockey under a full moon as fall turns into winter in When the Moon Comes (Tundra, 40 pages, $22, hardcover). This article was published (1997 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practice journalism.

When the Moon Comes by Paul Harbridge