The Buried City of Pompeii

This is the third in the I Was There series of richly illustrated historical books. It follows Discovering the Iceman and On Board the Titanic and stakes out a definite niche for author Shelley Tanaka. Between ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Promise Song

By Linda Holeman

For more than 50 years, from 1868 to 1925, various schemes emptied the orphanages of Britain to provide the farms of Canada with cheap hired help. Many of these schemes, most notably those of Dr. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Home Child

By Barbara Haworth-Attard

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Wild Talk: How Animals Talk to Each Other (Amazing Things Animals Do Series)

By Marilyn Baillie, Romi Caron, illus.

A simple book is often the best showcase for a simple truth. Wild Talk: How Animals Talk to Each Other establishes clearly not only how animals communicate but also that they do so much as ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Trap Door to Heaven

By Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce is a writer who likes a wide scope, having written 40 books in his 40 years. Most of us, one suspects, would have run out of things to say long before book 40. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Let Me Be the One

By Elisabeth Harvor

Elisabeth Harvor published her first collection of short stories in 1973; her second, If Only We Could Live Like This Forever, appeared over a decade later after a literary silence fed by marital dissolution and ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Diamond Grill

By Fred Wah

Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill is a small gem of a book. Wah refers to the book as a “biotext”; the publisher calls it both “biofiction” and “biography.” Wah denies that it contains “true stories but, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Mice Will Play

By Edward O. Phillips

Montreal writer Edward O. Phillips has made a name for himself writing witty mysteries about Westmount. In his latest offering, The Mice Will Play, Phillips continues to mine his rich vein of Wildean wit. Protagonist ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Money Tree Myth: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Kids Unravel the Mysteries of Money

By Gail Vaz-Oxlade

Financial consultant Gail Vaz-Oxlade, author of three adult financial planning books, and a popular speaker, knows her subject and audience. The Money Tree Myth is a well-organized guide with straightforward explanations of how money works, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

You Asked?: Over 300 Great Questions and Astounding Answers

By Katherine Farris, ed.

Years ago, Canadian radio and television broadcaster Art Linkletter coined the comic and candid phrase, “Kids say the darndest things.” Over the past 20 years, the staff at Canada’s award- winning Owl magazine has received ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

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