There are essentially two ways to put together a book of animal facts. The first is to find an outlandish hook (like “Man-Eating Rodents,” or “How Animals Mate”), or else jazz up what you have ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
Imagination plays an important role in Etta Kaner’s newest book about animals. The author of Animals at Work and Animal Defenses now gives readers a fun and informative look at the many ways and reasons ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
In Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, there is a monument to the victims and survivors of the SS Atlantic, a steamship that sank just off the coast in April 1873. The passengers were bound from Liverpool ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
For teen victims of violence, what keeps them isolated in silence is their feeling of shame. For teen aggressors who bully and beat siblings and schoolmates, it is their inability to acknowledge and own the ... Read More »
March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Fans of CBC Radio in southern Ontario have come to know Kevin Sylvester as the man who delivers their morning sports reports with a quirky sense of humour, a love of obscure trivia, and a ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
Sixteen-year-old Izzy Sullivan doesn’t want her father to remarry. They’ve become more like best friends than father and daughter since her mother died, and she doesn’t want things to change. But her dad goes ahead ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
Elixir, the latest work from Eric Walters, takes as its backdrop the story of the discovery of insulin by Canadian scientist Frederick Banting and his research assistant Charles Best. Set in the hot summer of ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
Matt Beam’s first YA novel is a case of close contact with the seventh-grade mind – worse, the seventh-grade boy’s mind, newly addled by testosterone. If you’re a seventh-grade boy, however, you may be relieved ... Read More »
March 14, 2005
Bearcub and Mama is the tender story of a young bearcub who follows his mother wherever she goes, learning how to catch fish, dig for grubs, climb trees, and find honey. As he grows he ... Read More »
March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
Imagine a Day is the second in a series of picture books featuring the trompe l’oeil paintings of Ontario architect Rob Gonsalves and the vaguely poetical phrases of Maine writer Sarah L. Thomson. The paintings ... Read More »
March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
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