February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »
After spending an hour or so perusing the bookshelves at my local big-box, books-by-the-barrel bazaar (where, by the way, I am certain that the health categories into which the books are divided were selected by ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
In celebration of the International Year of the Older Person (1999), award-winning Saskatchewan poet and novelist Shelley Leedahl has written a touching story of an old woman, once active and adventurous, “whose life had wound ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
This collection of poems deliberately sets out to challenge negative associations of the image of the dark. As the author states in her afterword, the association of darkness with evil and ignorance has often led ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
This delightful and lively book of poems for younger children is a pleasure to read aloud. Vancouver author, teacher, and Greek and Latin scholar Robert Heidbreder, who wrote the collections of poems Don’t Eat Spiders ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
The first stunning image in Firedancers is the hot orange-yellow-red of a brilliant autumn landscape at sunset. The world is on fire with light and colour, sky and trees blending with the clothing and faces ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Debbi Wilkes is familiar to any Canadian who watches figure skating on TV, as she is not only a former Olympic medal-winner herself but a regular commentator on televised skating competitions and host of the ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Wow Canada! is a scrapbook cum journal of a car trip across Canada written from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy named Guy. As the narrator, Guy describes places, flora, fauna, and experiences with a ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Sophie is sad that her family has to move from their Montreal neighbourhood all the way across Canada to their new B.C. home, but like her favourite comic book heroine, Star Girl, she’s ready for ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Twins Rob and Mark aren’t thrilled about spending two weeks with their mother on King William Island in the Arctic as part of an expedition studying muskox. But the North casts its spell and draws ... Read More »
February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction