December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
The miniseries Canada: A People’s History was a production of unprecedented scale in Canadian broadcasting and would ultimately become one of the crowning achievements of CBC Television’s 50-year history. It was also a logistical and ... Read More »
Tony Fabijancic, a Canadian educator and writer with Croatian roots, forgoes the usual blend of ethnography, historical writing, and travel journalism in this short, sweet examination of Croatian culture.The eloquent opening chapter focuses on the ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
Post baby-boom Canadians probably have no idea that the adoption of the official red maple-leaf flag in 1965 followed a fractious, decades-long debate both inside and outside of Parliament. Diefenbaker’s Conservatives, representing the majority of ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
In answer to the ongoing success of The Farmer’s Almanac for rural readers comes The Original Canadian City Dweller’s Almanac, a quirky, occasionally amusing potpourri of facts, rants, and anecdotes for theurban global villager. Like ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
In his introduction, author Barry Shell (research communications manager at the Centre for Systems Science at Simon Fraser University), talks about his own route to science. “In university I majored in organic chemistry because of ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Dennis Cooley’s Bloody Jack uses the story of Manitoba outlaw John Krafchenko as the launching pad for a playful and seemingly lawless exploration of poetry and language. First published in 1984, the book was an ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Long deemed by many to be Canada’s worst neighbourhood, and further degenerated by the infusion of cheap crack cocaine, most of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood has resisted all efforts at gentrification and reform. A block ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
If there is a lodestar in the Thousand and One Nights, it is the idea that stories, as well as being entertaining, can save your life. Just as Shahrazad, the frame narrator of the Nights, ... Read More »
November 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
Young fans of Ontario illustrator Andrea Beck’s Elliot Moose will be pleased to find an Elliot story in large format, embellished with lots of flaps to lift and see what’s hidden inside. “Story” is not ... Read More »
November 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
Using photographs of homemade dolls posed in scenes of a simple story, Vancouver graphic designers Robin Mitchell and Judith Steedman have begun a series of engaging books for preschoolers. The first, Windy, follows a little ... Read More »
November 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books