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★ Hummingbirds: A Beginner’s Guide

Hummingbirds are apparently the most popular birds in North America, and reading these two appealing books about them makes it easy to understand why. Any account of hummingbirds deals in amazing statistics: their wings beat ... Read More »

November 9, 2003

Money: Make It, Spend It, Save It

By J. E. Bogart

While this book is written to show Canadian kids how to be effective money-makers, educated consumers, and successful investors, the majority of young readers will probably be most interested in the chapter on jobs. Based ... Read More »

November 9, 2003

J.r.r. Tolkien: The Man Who Created the Lord of the Rings

By Michael Coren

Michael Coren’s new biography of J.R.R. Tolkien could not have come at a more appropriate time. It follows on the heels of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings being voted the most popular book of ... Read More »

November 9, 2003

97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life

By Linda Granfield, Arlene Alda, photog.

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

Ice Age Mammoth: Will This Ancient Giant Come Back to Life?

By Barbara Hehner, Mark Hallett, illus.

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

To Be a Princess

By Hugh Brewster and Laurie Coulter, Laurie McGaw, illus.

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

Pioneer Girl

By Maryanne Caswell, Lindsay Grater, illus.

Pioneer Girl reissues a vivid collection of letters written in 1887 by a 14-year-old Saskatchewan homesteader, Maryanne Caswell, to her grandmother at home in Palmerston, Ontario. The narrative is filled with fascinating practical details, such ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

Bleeps and Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications

By Alannah Hegedus and Kaitlin Rainey, Bill Slavin, illus.

Canada is such a sprawling, sparsely populated country that it comes as no surprise to learn that its citizens played vital roles in developing communications technology. What is startling is how little most of us ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

The Jumbo Book of Art

By Irene Luxbacher

Kids Can Press succeeds again with The Jumbo Book of Art. Written and illustrated by Irene Luxbacher (a member of Toronto’s Avenue Road Arts School), this artistic adventure assures readers that if they have an ... Read More »

October 30, 2003

The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories

By Val Ross

The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories is a fascinating exploration of humanity’s attempts to map the unknown parts of our world. Starting with the scholarly detective tale of the forged Vinland map, the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003

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★ Hummingbirds: A Beginner’s Guide

Money: Make It, Spend It, Save It

J.r.r. Tolkien: The Man Who Created the Lord of the Rings

97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life

Ice Age Mammoth: Will This Ancient Giant Come Back to Life?

To Be a Princess

Pioneer Girl

Bleeps and Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications

The Jumbo Book of Art

The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories

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