Kids’ Books

The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

Witold Rybczynski is perhaps the closest we have in Canada to a Renaissance man. His works, which usually begin from a tightly focused locus point – the absence of the concept of comfort in architectural ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Hallelujah Handel

By Douglas Cowling, Jason Walker, illus.

The power of music to console and preserve is the underlying story of this new picture book based on the recording by Classical Kids of the same title. Darker in its subject matter than other ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Accidental Alphabet

By Dianna Bonder

Dianna Bonder, illustrator of A Pacific Alphabet, has produced another abcedarium, this one chronicling the misadventures of 26 characters in rhyming verse. This is the first book that Bonder, an artist based near Vancouver, has ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War

By Jacques R. Pauwels

Few truisms are as inviolable as the notion that the Second World War was a battle of good versus evil. Yet a recent stream of works documenting corporate collusion between Nazi Germany and General Motors, ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver

By Karen Love, ed.

Is it possible to capture the essence of a city by photographing its inhabitants? That is the underlying goal of Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver ($29.95 paper 1-55152-127-X, 160 pp., 8 x 10, Arsenal Pulp ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Three Pagodas Pass: A Roundabout Journey to Burma

By George Fetherling

Getting to Burma on the cheap is a formidable task. And who but a weathered adventurer could, as author George Fetherling tells it, “hitch a ride” for a few thousand nautical miles aboard a rotting ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Kings of Convergence

By Gordon Pitts

Very few people can go through their daily routine without coming into contact with the media, be it radio, television, film, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, or even outdoor billboards. Moreover, media play a key role ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Too Many Books!

By Gilles Tibo, Bruno St-Aubin, illus

At first glance, Montreal native Gilles Tibo’s new picture book seems based on an odd premise: that sometimes kids don’t have enough fun. Nicolas, the hero, finds that whenever he has trouble doing something, a ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Click!

By Shutta Crum, John Beder, illus.

A mother and her little boy, and a polar bear and cub, have much in common in Shutta Crum’s newest picture book. Click! tells the parallel story of how the offspring of two mother hunters (one ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Kids Book of Great Canadians

By Elizabeth MacLeod, John Mantha, illus.

Two new biographical compilations of great Canadians, historical and contemporary, tackle the topic in different ways. Elizabeth MacLeod takes an encyclopedic approach in The Kids Book of Great Canadians, featuring capsule entries on 150 memorable ... Read More »

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

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