February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
One day the Bear invites his friends, the Queen and the Bumblebee, to come with him to a magical land. There they meet the Prince of Night, who offers them three wishes. The Queen wishes ... Read More »
Barbara Reid is one of Canada’s most gifted and popular illustrators. Her tantalizingly tactile Plasticine pictures have inspired imitators and won her the coveted UNICEF-Ezra Jack Keats award. Her new interpretation of the golden goose ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Morris sells fish in Toronto’s Kensington Market; across the street, Minnie sells ladies’ hats. They fall in love and want to get married. Minnie would be happy with a little wedding but Morris, wanting to ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
If there’s one thing Cindy, a teenager with Down’s Syndrome who lives in a group home, knows, it’s that there’s a world of difference between institutional caretaking and caring. And so when she finds an ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In her first novel, Toronto writer Julia Gaunce leaps nimbly from idea to turn of phrase, using subtle wordplay to delineate her quirky characters’ quirky world. To say that Rocket Science tells the story of ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Ahtahkakoop is an ambitious book that presents, in minute detail, the life story of Cree chief Ahtahkakoop and, by extension, the culture and history of his people and their relocation to a reserve at Sandy ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
In her introduction to Going Some Place, editor Lynne Van Luven acknowledges that creative non-fiction is a “hybrid genre,” difficult to clearly define and often seen as fancy travel reportage or postmodern personal essay writing. ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction
The title of this memoir might lead the reader to expect a dishy, bitchy, spaghetti-strapped session with a Helen Fielding or a Melissa Bank, the top-girls in the urban dating adventures genre. But the reader ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Keith Garebian’s background is rich with potential autobiographical material. Born to an Armenian father and a mother of mixed Indian and English ancestry, he spent his early years in the polyglot expatriate community in Bombay. ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
Old dinosaurs never die, they just evolve into something else,” might make a good motto for many of today’s paleontologists. Going beyond the strict boundaries of the all-the-dinosaurs-were-killed-by-a-meteorite theory, cutting-edge paleontologists now believe that a ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment