Like its predecessor in the Dot to Dot in the Sky series, Stories of the Planets is somewhat deceptively packaged. A quick glance at the cover with its brightly coloured drawings of the first few ... Read More »
December 1, 2003
The newest work of non-fiction by well-known children’s science writers Peter Cook and Laura Suzuki begins by asking the question “If blending in helps animals stay safe, why would they want to be showoffs?” In ... Read More »
December 1, 2003
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, hoped to be remembered as “the man who did the most for Canada.” Our most enduring memory of him, however, seems to be as the guy who ... Read More »
December 1, 2003
Long deemed by many to be Canada’s worst neighbourhood, and further degenerated by the infusion of cheap crack cocaine, most of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood has resisted all efforts at gentrification and reform. A block ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
The life story of Albert Einstein, the man who opened the Pandora’s box of nuclear energy, is one of the great parables of our age. It’s a hopeful tale of a late bloomer who triumphed ... Read More »
December 1, 2003
Richard Thompson and Martin Springett continue to explore mythology in The Night Walker, their latest collaboration. The story opens with a native boy adventuring starts homeward, strange noises follow him but stop abruptly whenever he ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
Whenever I read a book to my children and they enjoy it more than I do, I send them straight to bed and assume they’re just tired and exhibiting poor aesthetic judgment. But when, despite ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
Set in Canada’s Far North, Royal Ransom follows the conventional wilderness survival/ adventure genre popularized by Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet. But Walters adds novelty by making two of the young characters members of the British monarchy. ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Authors
First published at 14 with over 45 books to his credit, Gordon Korman is a force of nature. His last trilogy, Island, sold more than 240,000 copies in Canada alone. This new trilogy pits his ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
For 40 years, from 1912 to 1952, Lillian H. Smith embodied librarianship in Canada. As the first children’s librarian in the British Empire and the director of children’s services at Toronto Public Library, she created ... Read More »
December 1, 2003
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