Kids’ Books

Perfect Man

Michael Maxwell McAllum loves superheroes, especially Perfect Man, “the greatest superhero of them all.” Michael has Perfect Man video games, Perfect Man cereal, and even his own Perfect Man web site. Then, one day, Perfect ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Sidewalk Rescue

By Hazel Hutchins, Ruth Ohi, illus.

Hazel Hutchins’ and Ruth Ohi’s new picture book – the 16th they’ve done together – is a lively fantasy about a girl named Josie who disappears into the world of her sidewalk chalk drawings. We ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Going to the Fair

By Sheryl McFarlane, Sheena Lott, illus.

Going to the Fair is a straightforward account of the day four children spend at a country fair. They exhibit a calf, a rooster, and a pumpkin, all lovingly raised by hand. They look at ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Doggerel

By Sheila Dalton, Kim LaFave, illus.

In humorous verse, Sheila Dalton’s new book celebrates the diversity of dogs – the shaggy and the waggy, the burly and the curly, the scrawny and the yawny. Although they don’t sparkle with wit, the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating

By Steve Milton

Even before Harding hit Kerrigan, thousands of Canadians were glued to sets and frozen to bleachers, watching Stojko, Chouinard, and Philippe Candeloro, above, spinning around the ice all over the world. And given the relatively ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ What God Allows: The Crisis of Faith and Conscience in One Catholic Church

By Ivor Shapiro

When Pope John Paul II released his encyclical Vertitatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) in the fall of 1993, it gave members of the Roman Catholic Church much to ponder. It states that certain acts, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

All I Thought About Was Baseball: Writings on a Canadian Pastime

By William Humber and John St. James, eds.

In All I Thought About Was Baseball, editors William Humber and John St. James make reference to the intimate relationship this country has with “the game.” Their insight that this connection stems from the “longing ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality

By Donna Laframboise

If you watch TV or read the popular press, you probably know more about the rebellion against feminism than you do about feminism itself. Nay-sayers to the women’s movement have been popular since Camille Paglia, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ White Tie and Decorations: Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934–1936

By Peter Neary, ed.

The title of this selection of letters written from pre-Canadian Newfoundland by one of its British administrators and his wife constitutes a radical undervaluation. White Tie and Decorations is not, in fact, a book about ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Presumption of Culture: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in the Canadian Cultural Landscape

By Tom Henighan

When Sheila Finestone, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, suggested a couple of years ago that “Canada has no national culture,” her intention may have been to affirm Canada’s wide diversity of cultures and lack of ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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