November 8, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
If scientists perfect the technique of cloning, woolly mammoths might live again with other Ice Age descendants in a Pleistocene Park. Barbara Hehner, author of an earlier children’s book on these creatures, advances that possibility ... Read More »
While perhaps not the most boring book ever created for young readers, If the World Were a Village is certainly a contender. A worthy attempt to inculcate global awareness in children, David J. Smith’s information ... Read More »
November 8, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Journalist and television host Steve Paikin’s authorial debut, The Life, promises to shed light on the seductive call of Canadian politics, but underdelivers on this ambitious goal. Paikin uses the political lives of such Canadian ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common and often debilitating condition. The disorder’s causes are not fully understood, and opinions differ – often radically – regarding optimal treatment. The editors of The All-in-One Guide ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
One thing about the Sweet Science upon which all initiates are in agreement is that it used to be better.” When the great A.J. Liebling wrote that in1955 it was as a rebuke to all ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
While trying to satisfy a magazine editor’s request for a story on mummies, science writer Heather Pringle ended up at the gloriously eccentric World Congress of Mummy Studies on the edge of a desolate Chilean ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Nib is a mouse who lives in a subway tunnel. One day he decides to leave his nest, family, and friends to try to find the legendary “Tunnel’s End.” Some mice say it is only ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Start with Jeremy Papier, chef. He’s in his early thirties, with life coming at him, and fast. His restaurant, The Monkey’s Paw Bistro, is making a name for itself in Vancouver. He’s got ideas, energy, ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Writing a book about a political scandal comes with its own challenges, including the aggressive research involved and the process of rearranging those facts into a compelling narrative. Writing a book about a Canadian political ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
When his grandfather moves in, Ben tells his friends that an alien has invaded his house. By the way he describes the old man’s removable teeth and hair, taste for greens, and apparent fixation on ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books