February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
In Bear On the Train, a hungry bear follows the smell of grain right into a railway car. By the time the train pulls out, the bear is ready to hibernate and sleeps through the ... Read More »
Inukshuks – those strange human-like figures of piled rocks that are such a distinctive emblem of the Canadian Arctic – provide a centre for Maxine Trottier’s haunting story of a young boy lost in the ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
As any serious seeker of self-improvement knows, being half-spiritual is like being half-pregnant. You either are spiritual – or are trying to be – or you are not. Half-way measures, such as leaving your soul ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
As any serious seeker of self-improvement knows, being half-spiritual is like being half-pregnant. You either are spiritual – or are trying to be – or you are not. Half-way measures, such as leaving your soul ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
Pete Marlowe’s new picture book tells the fanciful tale of what happens when the power goes out one night at a little girl’s home. Soon after her parents tuck her into bed for the night, ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Didi is a hyperkinetic toddler with a blonde ponytail, round tummy, and an infectious enthusiasm for her Sunday morning walks with her Dad (no Mom in evidence) on Brooklyn’s riverside Promenade. Marie-Louise Gay’s breezy illustrations ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Here is a keen observer, charting day-to-day experience in poems of loss and quiet celebration. A series of elegies, The Strength of Materials reflects Rhea Tregebov’s understanding of the human passage through time. Her resilient ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
The philosophy behind the by-now-familiar Gen X posture is that the only way to protect yourself from cliché and pretension is to refer frequently to the silliest pop-culture material you can get your mittens on. ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry