Somebody Else’s Summer

On a flight from Vancouver to Toronto, 10-year-olds Alexis and Samantha meet and cook up a plan far beyond either of their wildest dreams. Due to extenuating family circumstances, both girls are being shipped off ... Read More »

May 11, 2005

A Brazilian Alphabet for the Younger Reader

By P.K. Page; P.K. Page

A seven-year-old of my aquaintance once passed the hours of a long car trip by inventing her own language. The language was based on the ingenious idea of using ordinary English words to mean something ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Roger Gets Carried Away

By Barbara Todd, Rogé, illus.

When it comes to Roger’s imagination, the sky’s the limit – or nearly so, since, as the heroic Captain Kaboodle, he can reach outer space. But when Roger gets his first pair of eyeglasses – ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

British Columbia: Land of Promises

By Patricia E. Roy and John Herd Thompson

Patricia Roy and John Herd Thompson’s book on B.C. closes with, “All you have to do is wake up in B.C. to realize how lucky you are.” This is just as well because, as the ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

Silly Chicken

By Rukhsana Khan, Yunmee Kyong, illus.

Rukhsana Khan’s new picture book gives a delightful twist to the classic plotline of a young child’s jealousy about sharing her mother’s attention and affection. The rival in this case is not a younger sibling, ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Molly Fire

By Michael Mitchell

The Molly Fire is an unconventional book. More anthropological than a memoir, too fragmented for any strong narrative lifeline, this book is a miscellany in the best, most exploratory and curious sense of the word.Photographer, ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War 1939-1945

By J.L. Granatstein

If Canada came of age during the First World War, then the Second World War brought the country to robust adulthood. In his illustrated history of Canada’s contribution to the Second World War, historian J.L. ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

The Wildfire Season

By Andrew Pyper

In a poignant section near the beginning of Andrew Pyper’s third novel, Miles McEwan attempts to come to terms with life after suffering disfiguring burns he received fighting wildfires in B.C. He returns home to ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gently Down the Stream

By Ray Robertson

The experience of reading Ray Robertson’s fourth novel is analogous to the careless slide through life evoked by the title, recalling the jobless summer days of childhood, when books were read without a thought for ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Numbers with Farm Animals

By Melanie Watt

A new board book series from Kids Can Press, Learning with Animals explains basic concepts using various groupings of animals. Each book begins with a two-page spread including all the featured animals and an inviting ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

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