Kids’ Books

Snake Dreamer

Priscilla Galloway’s Snake Dreamer is faithfully evoked in cover artist Janet Wooley’s collage of beautiful and monstrous faces, crumbling temples, barren seashores, and sinuous serpents against a wash of intense Mediterranean blue. The story begins ... Read More »

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

★ Greater than Angels

By Carol Matas

It is the early 1940s, in Vichy France, and a number of Jewish teenagers, having lost nearly everything of their former lives and beliefs, are sitting on the porch of a Red Cross shelter and ... Read More »

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

Rose by Night

By Mireille Levert

Little Rose Redberry’s bedtime routine involves a drink, which leads to a sudden wakeup later when she needs to “pee so bad.” Easier said than done. Rose’s boisterous, colourful bedroom is fraught with danger. A ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Catmagic

By Loris Lesynski

When an aging witch begins to run out of spells, she needs a congenial place to hang up her broomstick. So when Arabelle notices an opening in the witches’ retirement home, she consults her cat ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Creatures: An Alphabet for Adults and Worldly Children

By Frank Newfeld

Creatures is a beautifully produced, full-colour alphabet book full of surprises. It’s not the sort of book that teaches upper and lower case letters. Rather, it’s a guessing game – you search the elegant wordless ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Uncivilizing

By Caroline Davidson et al.,Jennifer Footman, ed.

In the editor’s introduction, Jennifer Footman makes a distinction between Uncivilizing and other contemporary poetry anthologies that herald the arrival of “new and exciting” writers (usually poets under 30 or those not-yet-known). In contrast, Footman ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870-1940

By Christopher Armstrong

For Canadian stock exchanges, the Bre-X mining scandal shows the truth in Mark Twain’s description of a gold mine as “a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it.” Author Christopher Armstrong, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors of the Transition to Womanhood

By K. Wind Hughes and Linda Wolf, photos by Linda Wolf

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun is the latest addition to the recent deluge of books that explore the perilous emotional passage of girls into womanhood. The book is a compilation of bittersweet ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Growing up Naked: My Years in Bump and Grind

By Lindalee Tracey

When a stripper associate and I ran into Lindalee Tracey (aka “Fonda Peters”) in Montreal in the early 1980s, I was dutifully impressed. To be a famous stripper in a city that is so girl ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

How to See Fairies: A Fairy Gift Box

By Charles van Sandwyk

Charles van Sandwyk, a young Vancouver artist who splits his home between the West Coast and a remote Fijian island, has written and illustrated this keepsake fairy kit. The kit contains van Sandwyk’s book, a ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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