February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »
After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
This delightful and lively book of poems for younger children is a pleasure to read aloud. Vancouver author, teacher, and Greek and Latin scholar Robert Heidbreder, who wrote the collections of poems Don’t Eat Spiders ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Debbi Wilkes is familiar to any Canadian who watches figure skating on TV, as she is not only a former Olympic medal-winner herself but a regular commentator on televised skating competitions and host of the ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Wow Canada! is a scrapbook cum journal of a car trip across Canada written from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy named Guy. As the narrator, Guy describes places, flora, fauna, and experiences with a ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Sophie is sad that her family has to move from their Montreal neighbourhood all the way across Canada to their new B.C. home, but like her favourite comic book heroine, Star Girl, she’s ready for ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Twins Rob and Mark aren’t thrilled about spending two weeks with their mother on King William Island in the Arctic as part of an expedition studying muskox. But the North casts its spell and draws ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
In his new book on human rights, distinguished author and historian Michael Ignatieff grapples with profound issues of the human rights movement, skillfully mapping its controversies and ambiguities. Ignatieff probes the political morality of human ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment