Kids’ Books

★ A Screaming Kind of Day

Scully has to wear hearing aids, and she has a problem. At first glance, A Screaming Kind of Day seems to be the kind of children’s book I most despise – the aggressively therapeutic kind ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Kids Book of Canadian Prime Ministers

By Pat Hancock, John Mantha, illus.

This attractive and informative book fills a real need. Entries for each of the 20 PMs, which range from two to five pages depending on their length of time in office, provide a good balance ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Stranded

By Eric Walters

We meet poor old Gordon Stevens departing with his Grade 7 classmates for a week-long field trip to an island. Unfortunately, before he gets on the bus, Gordon and the reader have to endure good-byes ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Journal of Etienne Mercier

By David Bouchard, Gordon Miller, illus.

David Bouchard scores with this quirky concoction of history, art, nature, and folk songs. The Journal of Etienne Mercier, like Bouchard’s previous If You’re Not from the Prairies and The Colours of British Columbia, is ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Animal Dreaming

By Paul Morin

Ontario artist Paul Morin has won major awards for his children’s picture book illustrations, including the Governor General’s Award for his pictures for Tololwa Mollel’s Orphan Boy, and the IBBY International award. The illustrations for ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Losing the Dead

By Lisa Appignanesi

There is an intensely immediate quality to Lisa Appignanesi’s family memoir Losing the Dead. The story is told in the present tense with constant temporal shifts that transport the reader from wartime Poland, to 1950s ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women

By Nancy Wachowich,Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak and Sandra Pikujak Katsak

Saqiyuq is the Inuktitut word for a strong wind that suddenly shifts direction. Inuit life has also undergone a sudden shift in the last four decades, from nomadic subsistence hunting to permanent settlement in communities. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

Spider’s Web

By Sharon Stewart

Don Tapscott (Growing Up Digital) suggests that use of the Internet is changing the way children actually think. Mary Beaty, frequent contributor to these pages, makes a convincing case that the Internet is a sort ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Racing Worm Brothers

By Gary Barwin, Kitty Macaulay, illus.

Aaron is allergic to every pet except goldfish. But he doesn’t want a goldfish – he wants something he can pat. His brother Ryan suggests they find some worms to keep as pets. Before long, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Prairie Fire!

By Bill Freeman

Prairie Fire! tells how the Bains family, homesteading in Manitoba in the 1870s, find themselves in the middle of a dispute between other settlers and the Métis who roam the land – a dispute that ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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