In the City

Part of the Wheels at Work series, Ontario children’s author and illustrator Don Kilby’s latest two titles introduce the daily activities of hardworking trucks, buses, emergency vehicles, combines, tractors, sprayers, and more. Young readers are ... Read More »

November 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

In the Country

By Don Kilby

November 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Very Unusual Dog

By Dorothy Joan Harris, Kim LaFave, illus.

Inspired by her own children when they were young, Toronto author Dorothy Joan Harris tells the story of a young boy named Jonathan and his imaginary pet, named Dog, who likes to eat toast crumbs, ... Read More »

November 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Read Me a Book

By Barbara Reid

Twenty years after she first wowed the picture book world with her now-signature Plasticine artwork for The New Baby Calf, Barbara Reid has another treat for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and caregivers. Read Me a Book, ... Read More »

November 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

That’s Very Canadian!

By Vivien Bowers, Dianne Eastman, illus.

This book is the third in Vivien Bowers’ series of exclamation point-enhanced titles (after 1999’s Wow Canada! and 2002’s Only in Canada!). All three books share not only the same irreverent tone in educating young ... Read More »

November 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Money, Money, Money: Where It Comes from, How to Save It, Spend It and Make It

By Eve Drobot, Claudia Davila, illus.

Money, Money, Money is a comprehensive revision of Drobot’s first children’s book, Everything You Want to Know About Money, published in 1987. This new edition includes money facts on such topics as issuing euros, reprinting ... Read More »

November 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution

By Ange Zhang

Ange Zhang was just 13 in June 1966, when Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution utterly swept away his childhood world. In this breathtaking memoir, he seems a reluctant guide, cautiously navigating his way through the dark ... Read More »

November 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

A Lover’s Quarrel

By Carmine Starnino

Montreal poet, editor, and critic Carmine Starnino is a lonely brave voice in a milquetoast milieu. To readers panting in a critical desert of “joylessness and phrasal drabness” he offers “ebullience, ardency and verve.” He ... Read More »

October 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

Going Wild: Amazing Animal Adventures Around the World

By Brian Keating

The title of this book is a bit misleading: the stories of globetrotting and animal observing collected here aren’t so much amazing animal adventures as they are very interesting Brian Keating adventures. (As for Going ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Slangalicious

By Gillian O'Reilly, Krista Johnson, illus.

Why do people call TV the “boob tube‚” or use the word “dough” for money? Why do we say we “loaf around” when we’re doing nothing? Why is something easily accomplished a “cakewalk”? All these ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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