November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Sarah Ellis, the celebrated Vancouver author with X-ray insight into her child protagonists’ inner lives, turns her talents to something completely different: an ebullient bildungsroman that skips along with the sparkling wordplay of a junior ... Read More »
Stuart Laidlaw, a member of The Toronto Star’s editorial board who has led the paper’s coverage of Canadian farm and agricultural issues, has written a compassionate and harrowing account of the burgeoning industrialization of Canadian ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
Did Sir Francis Drake visit Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlottes, and the coast of Alaska 200 years before any other European? Geographer, ex-B.C. politician, and sailor Samuel Bawlf sure makes a strong case for such ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
Vlasta van Kampen’s latest picture book recounts the adventures of a monarch butterfly as she embarks on her species’ annual migration to Mexico. For all her caterpillar life, Marigold has listened with impatient longing to ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
The first poem in Crowd of Sounds, Adam Sol’s second poetry collection, presents in miniature the book’s thematic concerns. Entitled “The Calculus of a Man Striking Water in Relation to a Boat Striking Wood, and ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Giving presents and getting presents: both are often fun, but not always easy. Jean Little’s many well-loved novels and poems explore the difficulties as well as the joys of family life, and this new poem ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour.” These mysterious, beautiful words of William Blake have inspired ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
Quincy Mack is a professional basketball trickster from Brantford, Ontario, who uses more than 100 Harlem Globetrotters-style tricks to grab kids’ attention so they’ll listen to his inspirational lectures. Part memoir/part Chicken Soup for the ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
A woman named Sunny in one of Michael Hetherton’s stories calls a man “iceberg head,” but it’s not an insult. She means – or hopes – there’s more beneath the surface than meets the eye. ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Jacques Poulin is one of Quebec’s best and most-loved writers, winner of the Governer General’s Award for Les Grandes marées (Spring Tides) and the Prix France-Amerique for Le Vieux chagrin (Mr. Blue). Thoughtful and wryly ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels