Beetle Bedlam

Vlasta van Kampen thanks scientists and technicians at Agriculture Canada’s Centre for Land and Biological Resources at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa for their interest and continuous flow of information over the three years ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Discovering the Iceman: What was it like to find a 5,300-year-old mummy? (I Was There Series)

By Shelley Tanaka, Laurie McGaw, illus.

Discovering the Iceman tells eight-to 12-year-olds about the 1991 discovery, identification, and subsequent study of a glacier-preserved, late Stone Age man and his belongings. It’s a book that, though carefully and attractively designed, scores low ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

As for Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross

By Keath Fraser

Early in this memoir, Keath Fraser writes of his subject, “He resisted summary. He took his own measure from a world often foreign to his, the straight world or else another country’s culture, and seldom ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

If You Could Wear My Sneakers!

By Sheree Fitch, Darcia Labrosse, illus.

Award-winning performance poet Sheree Fitch (author of There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen and Mable Murple) has teamed with illustrator Darcia Labrosse to produce a book of poems about children’s rights. Peter Gzowski provides the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Dispatches from the Poverty Line

By Pat Capponi

A war is being fought across Canada right now, but it’s one we seldom see dramatized in vivid images on the late-night television news. The war, of course, is the poverty war, and depending on your ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Pond Seasons

By Sue Ann Alderson, Ann Blades, illus.

The pond’s cycle begins – naturally enough – in early spring. Mallards hatch, butterflies flit, and herons, snakes, bats, and other pond denizens go about their lives. Deep in winter, as the book ends, turtles ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

The New Land: A First Year on the Prairie

By Marilynn Reynolds, Stephen McCallum, illus.

The account of one family journeying from “the old country” across the ocean and the continent to develop a homestead on the prairies, The New Land seems deliberately general rather than specific in its references, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Moons of Goose Island (first Nations Children’s Literary Series)

By Don K. Philpot, Margaret Hessian, illus.

Thoughtful simplicity and an interesting illustrative approach distinguish this quiet but effective story about bereavement, mourning, and healing. Launching an intended four-book series that will portray contemporary First Nations children in their communities, this first ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Hockey the NHL Way: The Basics

By Sean Rossiter

Sean Rossiter’s Hockey the NHL Way: The Basics takes a shot at teaching budding enthusiasts of the sport between the ages of eight and 12 the necessary skills to play any of the game’s key ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Voices from the Wild: An Animal Sensagoria

By David Bouchard, Ron Parker, illus.

I’ve never read a sensagoria before. Actually, I’ve never even heard of one and although my dictionary can’t define it for me, I think I like it. David Bouchard’s newest book of poems, Voices from ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

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