Kids’ Books

This Is Me and Where I Am

One of childhood’s most mercurial big ideas is that the world is physically greater and experientially richer than what we see and know. In her first solo book, Governor General’s Award-winning illustrator Joanne Fitzgerald simplifies ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Drumheller Dinosaur Dance

By Robert Heidbreder, Bill Slavin and Esperanca Melo, illus.

Fans of boisterous bedtimes will get a high kick out of this fun, fantastical take on Drumheller’s dinosaurs. Thanks to Robert Heidbreder, winner of a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence and author of poetry ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything

By Anne Dublin

Sadly, in 2004, Canadian star athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld is no longer a household name. Anne Dublin’s well-written and informative biography creates a compelling portrait of this influential but largely forgotten figure. It chronicles as well ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Hatbox Letters

By Beth Powning

The literary device of letters or diaries speaking across the years to someone from a later time is as old and hoary as fiction itself. To Beth Powning’s considerable credit, The Hatbox Letters makes the ... Read More »

July 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Nowhere Fast

By Yashin Blake

Toronto writer Yashin Blake gives us 18 stories for the initiated, populated with edgy urbanites dispensing wry witticisms as they hold forth on such little-known cultural phenomena as McCoy Tyner, Slayer, and the Project for ... Read More »

May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Scams!

By Andreas Schroeder

Scams!, a paean to both the con artist's imagination and the victim's gullibility, is Andreas Schroeder's first book for young readers and the latest in Annick's True Stories from the Edge series. In Scams!, Schroeder, ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Great Women Leaders

By Heather Ball

Great Women Leaders, the fourth in Second Story's Women's Hall of Fame Series, belongs to the inspirational school of biography. Featuring 10 subjects who overcame various types of prejudice to make enormous contributions to society, ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Ask Me Anything!

By Marg Meikle

Marg Meikle provides answers to questions kids wonder about, posed to her via post and e-mails or arising from her own enquiring mind. The results of her research range from the mildly interesting (why isn't ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Who Are You? Why You Look, Feel, and Act the Way You Do

By Sylvia Funston, Susanna Denti, illus., Gilbert Duclos, photo.

Achieving a healthy self-image has been a struggle for pre-teens for generations. This book takes a lighthearted approach to the difficult, sensitive topic by creating a hands-on manual that children can read, use, and experiment ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Our Canadian Flag

By Maxine Trottier, Brian Deines, illus.

Two interesting facts for young Canadian patriots: we didn't get our own flag until 1965; and "O Canada" wasn't adopted as our official national anthem until 1980, when Parliament passed the National Anthem Act. Maxine ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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