Kids’ Books

The Predicament of or

As the title suggests, Vancouver writer Shani Mootoo’s first collection of poetry catalogues the many “in-betweens” formed by a world of either/or choices and definitions. As in her award-winning novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, Mootoo ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Green Grit: The Story of the Saskatchewan Roughriders

By Graham Kelly

If it’s true that losers’ tales make for the best sports stories, Green Grit, Graham Kelly’s history of the floundering fortunes of the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, ought to have provided readers with a very dramatic ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Northern Wild: Best Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing

By David R. Boyd, ed.

It is somewhat curious that Canada, a country very much aware of its natural heritage and with an abundance of nature writing (both in periodicals and books), lacks significant, contemporary anthologies of nature writing. Despite ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Mystery of Ireland’s Eye

By Shane Peacock

When Dylan is 11, he is seized by an unexplained passion to accompany his parents on a sea kayaking trip to Ireland’s Eye, an abandoned island in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Over the next year, Dylan ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Nordlings

By Kathleen McDonnell

In The Nordlings, 15-year-old Peggy finds herself thrust out of her unhappy everyday life and into Notherland, the fantasy world she created as a child. The soul-stealing Nobodaddy now threatens Notherland’s existence, and it’s up ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Looking for X

By Deborah Ellis

Most girls would feel trapped living on social assistance in Toronto’s Regent Park with their mother and two autistic brothers. But 11-year-old Khyber, who has named herself for a pass in Afghanistan, is one of ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Lionheart’s Scribe

By Karleen Bradford

Completing her trilogy about the Crusades with this volume, Karleen Bradford once again creates a gripping story that brings a distant time and place vividly alive for young readers today. Reflecting contemporary awareness that the ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Other Place

By Monica Hughes

Fans of futuristic fiction will welcome this “somewhere in space” novel by Monica Hughes, award-winning author and acknowledged creator of contemporary Canadian science fiction for young people.The Other Place is an intriguing story about the ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Magic Mustache

By Gary Barwin, Stéphane Jorisch, illus.

In his playful second book for children, poet Gary Barwin riffs on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Here, a nose and his parents (two old eyes) are desperately poor, and a pair ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

When Addie Was Scared

By Linda Bailey, Wendy Bailey, illus.

Addie is a little girl who is scared of almost everything. She’s scared of the turkey gobbler in the farmyard, wild things that live in the bush, and wolves that howl at night. She’s scared ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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