November 10, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Every young ballet fan who has succumbed to the magic of dimming lights, swelling music, and gossamer costumes wonders what it’s really like to be on stage. Famous Canadian dancer Frank Augustyn knows both the ... Read More »
If scientists perfect the technique of cloning, woolly mammoths might live again with other Ice Age descendants in a Pleistocene Park. Barbara Hehner, author of an earlier children’s book on these creatures, advances that possibility ... Read More »
November 8, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
While perhaps not the most boring book ever created for young readers, If the World Were a Village is certainly a contender. A worthy attempt to inculcate global awareness in children, David J. Smith’s information ... Read More »
November 8, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Two books this season, both for readers aged eight to 12, explore the lives of young royalty throughout history, illustrating in the process that princes’ and princesses’ lives are not the fairy-tales they may seem. ... Read More »
November 6, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Journalist and television host Steve Paikin’s authorial debut, The Life, promises to shed light on the seductive call of Canadian politics, but underdelivers on this ambitious goal. Paikin uses the political lives of such Canadian ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
A wild wizard party on the turrets of Toronto’s eccentric castle, Casa Loma – who could resist it? And who could resist the rollicking verses of Dennis Lee, matched with the delicately zany pictures of ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
When his grandfather moves in, Ben tells his friends that an alien has invaded his house. By the way he describes the old man’s removable teeth and hair, taste for greens, and apparent fixation on ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common and often debilitating condition. The disorder’s causes are not fully understood, and opinions differ – often radically – regarding optimal treatment. The editors of The All-in-One Guide ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
One thing about the Sweet Science upon which all initiates are in agreement is that it used to be better.” When the great A.J. Liebling wrote that in1955 it was as a rebuke to all ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
While trying to satisfy a magazine editor’s request for a story on mummies, science writer Heather Pringle ended up at the gloriously eccentric World Congress of Mummy Studies on the edge of a desolate Chilean ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction