February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Anyone who’s read the liner notes from a favourite record or CD knows how flat and even clumsy song lyrics can sound alone on paper. Yet children’s songs are often produced in picturebook form. When ... Read More »
This book has “beautiful” written all over it, full of deep snowdrifts and cozy three-storey Victorian houses with your own beautiful room at the top. Written in the lyrical style of Hundal’s award-winning I Heard ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The story of the Moccasin Goalie continues: Danny, Petou, and Anita have been asked to play for the Wolves, and the team has made it to the finals. That alone should prove the three are ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Doomsday is coming! Doomsday is coming!Sort of.Welcome to the Year 2000 Problem, also known in computer circles as Y2K, also known as the Millennium Bug, also known as the biggest single pain-in-the-butt that computer professionals ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
Doomsday is coming! Doomsday is coming!Sort of.Welcome to the Year 2000 Problem, also known in computer circles as Y2K, also known as the Millennium Bug, also known as the biggest single pain-in-the-butt that computer professionals ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
Take an intriguing title, add a mystery, include a dash of danger, a bantering family, and a hate-love relationship with a horse, and you’ve got ingredients for a book that will please a wide-ranging audience. ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
This collection of short stories for young adults by Mary-Kate McDonald finds all protagonists in a state of emotional pain. Jason discovers from a third party that his best friend is moving away. As her ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Remember Jeremy and the Aunties, that funny 1992 novel about the old-lady mannequins who come to life? Here is the sequel, which may also be read on its own, thanks to the handy little prologue. ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
For 10 years Alan and Lynn Bartholomew have been perfecting the electric gadgets they present in this book. Obviously they enjoy messing around with wires, batteries, and a host of tubes, bottles, bulbs, and motors, ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Although the recently released Ontario Science and Technology curriculum mandates the study of the solar system in Grade 6, fascination with the topic begins much earlier. Planets are to space what dinosaurs are to time ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction