February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Recent news articles suggest that children are growing up ignorant of their country’s history. One way of counteracting this is to introduce them early to stories that make the past seem exciting and intriguing. Picture ... Read More »
In Joan Weir’s sequel to The Witcher, the same two pubescent sleuths (Lion and his sister, Bobbi) foil a plot to discredit the principal of a school in Powell River. The principal is spearheading a ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Everybody knows the futility of trying to look up a “dirty” word in the dictionary. Even a quite ordinary word such as cunnilingus is not listed in every dictionary – a quick browse through my ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
In a perfect world, all cookbooks would be as enjoyable on the coffee table as they are on the kitchen counter. As it is, too many cookbooks are either weak on recipes but pretty to ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink
Canada hasn’t produced many homegrown Annie Dillards or Anne Lamotts – “literary” authors whose spiritual writing enjoys both popular and critical acclaim. So Holy Writ is a daring book of sorts. K.D. Miller, author of ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
Sailing Home is British Columbia poet Gary Geddes’s voyage into the past, his “male menopause” (as his daughter calls it), and his exploration of history both personal and far-reaching. Accompanied by the ghosts of Charles ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
What is happiness? The feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome.” David Olive cites that line from Friedrich Nietzsche as the epigraph of his new book. The quotation is a signal that ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
The first five titles in the Eye on Canada series are an effective reminder of just how much information a well-planned and carefully organized 32-page book can present. Harry Beckett, the series’ author, is a ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction