June 20, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
If the title of this book feels familiar, there is a good reason for that: the last few years have witnessed an explosion in non-fiction promoting strength, bravery, and resilience in girls. Examples include 2007’s ... Read More »
In Everyone Can Be a Changemaker, veteran author Christine Welldon has written 16 profiles of people from around the world (a number are Canadian) who took a spark of an idea intended to help others ... Read More »
June 13, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
People travel from all over the world to Prince Edward Island to visit the place where L.M. Montgomery grew up, to see where her most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables, takes place, and to ... Read More »
June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
The term climate change often brings to mind unpredictable storms and unseasonable temperatures. But in Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World, it’s clear that we’re in for more than stormy weather as ... Read More »
March 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
In two new picture books – both true tales featuring wartime prisoners at Auschwitz – small objects take on a significance that far outstrips their physical size. The Promise, co-written by cousins Pnina Bat Zvi ... Read More »
March 8, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
In two new picture books – both true tales featuring wartime prisoners at Auschwitz – small objects take on a significance that far outstrips their physical size. The Promise, co-written by cousins Pnina Bat Zvi ... Read More »
March 8, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Victoria-born activist Erinne Paisley made headlines in 2015 when she used her high school prom dress – handcrafted out of old math homework – to make some incisive statements about the lack of access to ... Read More »
January 26, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Eric Walters may be best known as the author of dozens of highly regarded young adult novels, but in recent years, he has published a growing number of picture books, many of which have been ... Read More »
December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
In a world full of Gordian knots, “innovation” has become an all-too-easy and overused buzzword. But in two new non-fiction books, we see how engineering and inventive thinking make a real difference to life in ... Read More »
December 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
In a world full of Gordian knots, “innovation” has become an all-too-easy and overused buzzword. But in two new non-fiction books, we see how engineering and inventive thinking make a real difference to life in ... Read More »
December 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books