The Twelve Days of Summer

By Jan Andrews, Susan Rennick Jolliffe, illus.

From The Twelve Cats of Christmas by Kandy Radzinski to Emily Brenner’s On the First Day of Grade School, the familiar Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” has inspired lots of picture book adaptations. ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Ben Over Night

By Sarah Ellis

Governor General’s Award-winning Vancouver author and Q&Q contributing editor Sarah Ellis follows up her charming Big Ben with Ben Over Night. The youngest member of a family of five, Ben wants to sleep over at ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Omar on Board

By Maryann Kovalski

This engaging picture book glows with the feeling of summer holidays. Popular author-illustrator Maryann Kovalski, who divides her time between Toronto and New York, sets her latest story about the plump bear Omar and his ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Resurrection Blues

By Mike Tanner

Eighteen-year-old Flynn Robinson leaves high school and his sleepy suburban life to join a popular club circuit band, following his dream to be a rock musician like his Uncle Ray, who’s spent his whole life ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Quid Pro Quo

By Vicki Grant

The narration of teen Cyril MacIntyre in the comic legal thriller Quid Pro Quo has the kind of timing, pacing, deadpan one-liners, and punchy humour that a seasoned stand-up comic would envy. No wonder that ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last

By Susan Juby

Fans of Susan Juby’s first two Alice books will find themselves well rewarded for the wait for the third. Here we catch up with Alice, still living in the small B.C. interior town of Smithers, ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Where’s Mom’s Hair? A Family’s Journey Through Cancer

By Debbie Watters, with Haydn and Emmett Watters, Sophie Hogan, photog.

Children tend to worry about things that are concrete and visible, so when a parent has cancer, kids often focus on hair loss. Their parent looks very different and might be quite self-conscious about this. ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Hemp Jewelry

By Judy Ann Sadler, June Bradford, illus.

Judy Ann Sadler takes up knots and beads to introduce kids to hemp jewelry making in her latest craft book. Hemp cord (made from fibres of the hemp plant) is popular for making jewelry because ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Battle Stations!: Fortifications Through the Ages

By Stephen Shapiro, Mei Tsao and Ken Nice, illus.

In Battle Stations, Toronto author Stephen Shapiro indulges his interest in military history to outline the ways we have defended ourselves over the past 3,500 years, and how those ways have evolved to meet changing ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Empires at War: The Seven Years’ War and the Struggle for North America 1754-1763

By William Fowler

Empires at War does not fit in the modern trend toward creative non-fiction history books. William Fowler, the American author of numerous books on 18th- and 19th-century U.S. naval history, writes solidly within the realm ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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