Children and YA Non-fiction

Worm Pie (shooting Star Series)

Scholastic’s Shooting Star series features believable stories with realistic characters and situations. Worm Pie tells a straightforward story about a young girl named Tara who is coping with two big problems: a new teacher, whose ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Farmer Joe Baby-sits

By Nancy Wilcox Richards, Werner Zimmermann, illus.

Farmer Joe is a warm-hearted, simple soul, a lovable schlemiel who gets by with a little help from his animal friends and a very competent wife. The whole crew first appeared in Farmer Joe’s Hot ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Two by George: Consecrated Ground and Gideon’s Blues

By George Elroy Boyd

In George Elroy Boyd’s Gideon’s Blues, Momma-Lou remembers how her husband, Poppy, used to say that this was “one nigger-hatin’ town.” I hazard a guess that it might be comforting for some Canadians’ self-image if ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis

By Lance Woolaver

The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis is a heart-warming companion to a new exhibit, scheduled to tour nationally, illustrating the life and art work of Nova Scotia’s most loved native painter. Everything about Maud Lewis ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch

By Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor with Peter Schjeldahl

It’s enough to make you scream, the way some curators can’t see the forest for the trees, or the message for the medium. The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch is no exception. In the life ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Greed: Investment Fraud in Canada and Around the Globe

By Deborah Thompson

In this review of well-known fraud cases from the last two decades, Toronto business writer Deborah Thompson covers a few boiler rooms from which assets were peddled to the unwary; a Winnipeg grain brokerage scandal; ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Butterfly Customer: Capturing the Loyalty of Today’s Elusive Consumer

By Susan M. O’Dell and Joan A. Pajunen

Toronto retail consultants Joan Pajunen and Susan O’Dell believe that customers’ loyalty to retailers has vanished. The authors identify both increased consumer awareness and diminished management ability for this trend. The Butterfly Customer deals with the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By Jonathan F. Vance

In April of 1926, during a debate in the House of Commons on that year’s budget, an MP named G.B. Nicholson remarked that Canada’s 60,000 First World War dead had been sacrificed for high, heroic ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Seven A.M. Practice: Stories of Family Life

By Roy MacGregor

Most newspaper columnists know – and if they don’t, they ought to think again – that they deal in perishable goods, that words dished up for daily consumption aren’t for the ages. Newspaper columns are ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

By Kate Taylor

There’s been plenty of anticipation for Kate Taylor’s Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, though not necessarily the kind a first-time novelist wants. Taylor is The Globe and Mail’s well-known theatre critic, respected by readers, ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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