This gorgeous book proves that Canadian art doesn’t begin and end with the Group of Seven. It takes the reader on a journey through the history of our art, from the petroglyphs and masks of ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
With Halloween on the horizon, Sylvia Funston’s Ghosts arrives at just the right time to explain the history, science, and mythology of spirits. The text reunites the prolific Funston (Scary Science, Animal Smarts) with illustrator ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
How many kids know that the first Canadian to climb the dizzy heights of Mount Everest was Calgarian Laurie Skreslet in 1982? Or that Superman first flew in 1932 in the imagination of his creator, ... Read More »
January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Authors
Baa! may very well be, as its subtitle promises, the most interesting book on the topic of genes written exclusively for kids. Certainly the first engaging book for children about the topic, it’s part of ... Read More »
January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Among the most popular kids’ whodunits are B.C. writer Eric Wilson’s Tom and Liz Austen mysteries, which have sold more than a million books. For 25 years, those intrepid amateur-detective siblings have been solving crimes ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
Moving into the rickety old Hawthorne house in New England is no fun for 10-year-old Sam Middleton, who doesn’t like his new house or room. Until, that is, he encounters mouse-sized Mr. Goodfellow. Goodfellow is ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
Like a banquet featuring a dish or two for every taste, Tim Wynne-Jones provides young readers with 20 short stories by contemporary Canadian writers, all originally published in the last 16 years. He cheerfully acknowledges ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
Plot has never been a big concern of Brian Doyle’s. The closest he came to a traditional narrative was probably Angel Square, when his young hero Tommy became a private eye (modelling himself after the ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
Toronto journalist Mary C. Sheppard’s first novel is a searching portrayal of life in a Newfoundland outport, Cook’s Cove, in 1960. The novel’s first-person narrator, Melinda, is a fun-loving 15-year-old with a reputation for putting ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
Emily’s grandma (oma) is not happy when she has to move from her home on Maple Street to a retirement home. She misses cooking, sleeping in her own bed, and seeing her neighbour. At their ... Read More »
January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
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