“Nancy Drew and Friends: Girl Detectives.” Review of Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths: Essays on the Fiction of Girl Detectives, edited by Michael G. Cornelius and Melanie E. Gregg (McFarland & Company, 2008). Children’s Literature 38 (2010): 267–9.
“There’s No Place Like Home.” Review of Home Words: Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada, edited by Mavis Reimer (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008). Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 184–5. (Contents)
“Wilder and Lane Revisited.” Review of Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture, by Anita Clair Fellman (University of Missouri Press, 2008); Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture, by John E. Miller (University of Missouri Press, 2008). Children’s Literature 37 (2009): 271–5. (Contents)
“The Performance Anxiety of L.M. Montgomery.” Review of After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916–1941, edited by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 190–2. (Contents)
Review of The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Lesbian/Gay/Queer Content, by Michael Cart and Christine A. Jenkins (Scarecrow Press, 2006). International Research in Children’s Literature 1, no. 1 (July 2008): 106–7. (Contents)
“Eternally Anne.” Review of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly (Penguin Canada, 2008); Before Green Gables, by Budge Wilson (Penguin Canada, 2008); Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel (Key Porter Books, 2008). The Globe and Mail, 22 March 2008, D1, D9.
Review of American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture, by Ilana Nash (Indiana University Press, 2006). Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 113–15. (Contents)
“Writing and Rewriting Nancy Drew, Girl Detective.” Review of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt, 2005). Children’s Literature 35 (2007): 228–36. (Contents)
Review of Almost Eden, by Anita Horrock (Tundra Books, 2006). Journal of Mennonite Studies 25 (2007): 245–6.
“L.M. Montgomery Studies.” Review of Windows and Words: A Look at Canadian Children’s Literature in English, edited by Aïda Hudson and Susan-Ann Cooper (University of Ottawa Press, 2003); Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Cecily Devereux (Broadview Press, 2004); The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery, edited by Irene Gammel (University of Toronto Press, 2005). Canadian Literature 189 (Summer 2006): 158–60. (Contents)
“The ‘Hardy Brats’ and their Foolhardy Creator.” Review of The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate, by Marilyn S. Greenwald (Ohio University Press, 2004). Children’s Literature 34 (2006): 239–45. (Contents)
“Shared Characteristics of Boys and Men in Recent Canadian Children’s Fiction.” Review of twelve Canadian novels for young adults by authors such as Tim Wynne-Jones, Martine Leavitt, Alan Cumyn, and Eric Walters. Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 31, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 145–61. (Contents)
Review of Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century, by Clarence Karr (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000). University of Toronto Quarterly 72, no. 1 (Winter 2002–2003): 470–1.
Review of Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery, by Alexandra Heilbron (Dundurn Press, 2001). Jointly with Mary Henley Rubio. University of Toronto Quarterly 72, no. 1 (Winter 2002–2003): 506–7.
“The Gender Zones.” Review of Boys’ Own: An Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers, edited by Tim Wynne-Jones (Viking, 2001); Girls’ Own: An Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers, edited by Sarah Ellis (Viking, 2001). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 108 (Winter 2002): 73–8. (Contents)
“Ice and Water.” Review of Slapshots 1: The Stars from Mars, by Gordon Korman (Scholastic, 1999); Island 1: Shipwreck, by Gordon Korman (Scholastic, 2001). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 108 (Winter 2002): 83–6. (Contents)
“Belated Acknowledgements.” Review of L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture, edited by Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly (University of Toronto Press, 1999). Essays on Canadian Writing 77 (Fall 2002): 90–9.
“They Shoot, They Score!” Review of fourteen titles in the Sports Stories series (James Lorimer, 1998–2001). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 104 (Winter 2001): 76–7. (Contents)
“‘Just Like Manitoba’: Didacticism, Universalism, Eurocentrism.” Review of Naomi: The Strawberry Blonde of Pippu Town, by Karmel Schreyer (Great Plains Fiction, 1999). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 100–101 (Winter 2000–Spring 2001): 147–8. (Contents)