A Treasure at Sea for Dragon and Me: Water Safety for Kids (and Dragons)

By Jean E. Pendziwol, Martine Gourbault, illus.

It’s been six years since Dragon first appeared in Jean E. Pendziwol’s fire safety picture book, No Dragons for Tea. The book quickly became a favourite of parents, teachers, and librarians looking for a fun, ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Boy Who Loved Bananas

By George Elliott, Andrej Krystoforski. illus.

If there is a moral at the heart of George Elliott’s first children’s book, it’s that monkeys are fun and that doing some things to excess out of sheer enthusiasm is not all that bad ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Bigbeard’s Hook

By Evan Solomon, Bill Slavin, illus.

Shiver me timbers! Evan Solomon, wunderkind co-founder of the now-defunct Shift magazine, hip television host, journalist, and novelist, is now also a children’s writer. Bigbeard’s Hook is the first in a picture book series called ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Snakes

By Adrienne Mason, Nancy Gray Ogle, illus.

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

Animals Migrating: How, When, Where and Why Animals Migrate

By Etta Kaner, Pat Stephens, illus.

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

The Gravesavers

By Sheree Fitch

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

I Wrote on All Four Walls: Teens Speak Out on Violence

By Fran Fearnley, ed.

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

Sports Hall of Weird

By Kevin Sylvester

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

Rules for Life

By Darlene Ryan

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

By Eric Walters

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

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Quill and Quire

A Treasure at Sea for Dragon and Me: Water Safety for Kids (and Dragons)

The Boy Who Loved Bananas

Bigbeard’s Hook

Snakes

Animals Migrating: How, When, Where and Why Animals Migrate

The Gravesavers

I Wrote on All Four Walls: Teens Speak Out on Violence

Sports Hall of Weird

Rules for Life

Elixir

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