May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Finding a horse book rich with glossy photos presents no problem. Finding a book that offers clear, well-organized information to equine enthusiasts is about as rare as a 14-hand racehorse.Crazy for Horses contains 16 full-colour ... Read More »
Barbara Greenwood and Heather Collins have done it again. Using the same format that made their award-winning A Pioneer Story such a success, they have brought to life another important slice of the Canadian past. ... Read More »
April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Be thankful for what you have because it could always be worse – not the most stirring of lessons, but it’s the one at the heart of this Yiddish folktale. In Margot Zemach’s classic 1976 ... Read More »
April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
In her latest science book, B.C. writer Valerie Wyatt introduces young readers to the subject of invention. Employing the reader-friendly Frequently Asked Questions format, Wyatt shows that inventions may occur in research labs with teams ... Read More »
April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
The newly published Kids Can Read series offers stories with a controlled vocabulary and three levels of difficulty in an engaging format for beginner readers. Level 1, exemplified by Sam Finds a Monster, is designed ... Read More »
April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
As this book opens, Lee’s mother forces Lee’s alcoholic father to leave the family. Eleven-year-old Lee can’t express her overwhelming anger, which abates only at school next day when the teacher shows slides of Emily ... Read More »
April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
SSecret of the Snow Leopard is a sequel to Himalaya, which was a film first and then a picture book. Tsering, the boy whose late father was village chief, is still too young to succeed ... Read More »
April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
How will Orca distinguish its new series of chapter books, Orca Echoes, in a market glutted with fiction for beginning readers? Perhaps by providing a variety of genres. The first batch includes: one strong historical ... Read More »
April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Toronto author Cary Fagan’s first children’s novel is an adventure-fantasy about a battle between the nice and not-so-nice. The Blandes are a nice family with eccentric interests. Mr. Blande has covered every inch of their ... Read More »
April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Operas and fairy tales have a natural affinity, and no one knew this more than the great Czech composer Dvorak, who put many of his native folk tales to music. His best-known opera, the enchanting ... Read More »
April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction