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97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life

By Linda Granfield, Arlene Alda, photog.

While perhaps not the most boring book ever created for young readers, If the World Were a Village is certainly a contender. A worthy attempt to inculcate global awareness in children, David J. Smith’s information ... Read More »

November 8, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Ice Age Mammoth: Will This Ancient Giant Come Back to Life?

By Barbara Hehner, Mark Hallett, illus.

If scientists perfect the technique of cloning, woolly mammoths might live again with other Ice Age descendants in a Pleistocene Park. Barbara Hehner, author of an earlier children’s book on these creatures, advances that possibility ... Read More »

November 8, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

To Be a Princess

By Hugh Brewster and Laurie Coulter, Laurie McGaw, illus.

Two books this season, both for readers aged eight to 12, explore the lives of young royalty throughout history, illustrating in the process that princes’ and princesses’ lives are not the fairy-tales they may seem. ... Read More »

November 6, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Pioneer Girl

By Maryanne Caswell, Lindsay Grater, illus.

Pioneer Girl reissues a vivid collection of letters written in 1887 by a 14-year-old Saskatchewan homesteader, Maryanne Caswell, to her grandmother at home in Palmerston, Ontario. The narrative is filled with fascinating practical details, such ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

Bleeps and Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications

By Alannah Hegedus and Kaitlin Rainey, Bill Slavin, illus.

Canada is such a sprawling, sparsely populated country that it comes as no surprise to learn that its citizens played vital roles in developing communications technology. What is startling is how little most of us ... Read More »

November 5, 2003

The Jumbo Book of Art

By Irene Luxbacher

Kids Can Press succeeds again with The Jumbo Book of Art. Written and illustrated by Irene Luxbacher (a member of Toronto’s Avenue Road Arts School), this artistic adventure assures readers that if they have an ... Read More »

October 30, 2003

The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories

By Val Ross

The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories is a fascinating exploration of humanity’s attempts to map the unknown parts of our world. Starting with the scholarly detective tale of the forged Vinland map, the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003

Christmas in Canada

By Rick Book

The other day I got a request to present a storytelling program for Christmas. My heart sank. My Christmas story file is very thin. Why, when Christmas music is so wonderful, are Christmas stories so ... Read More »

October 30, 2003

And Round Me Rings: Bell Tales and Folklore

By Ann Spencer, Lindsay Grater, illus.

Bells are used to gather, warn, and mark significant moments in life. To celebrate their significance, CBC radio journalist Ann Spencer has gathered a trove of lore and legend, fact and fancy. But while Spencer ... Read More »

October 30, 2003

The Wild Swans

By Ken Setterington; Nelly and Ernst Hofer, illus.

Once again Toronto librarian and storyteller Ken Setterington demonstrates his storytelling savvy in his retelling of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. And once again, the scherenschnitt (cut paper) black-and-white illustrations by Nelly and Ernst ... Read More »

October 30, 2003

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97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life

Ice Age Mammoth: Will This Ancient Giant Come Back to Life?

To Be a Princess

Pioneer Girl

Bleeps and Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications

The Jumbo Book of Art

The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories

Christmas in Canada

And Round Me Rings: Bell Tales and Folklore

The Wild Swans

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