★ Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Between April and August 1994, while the international community looked on, 800,000 people were systematically murdered in a small African country. In Shake Hands with the Devil, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire, the former Force ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Dog Crafts

By Linda Hendry

For those who love both pets and crafts, these new offerings from Kids Can Press are sure to be hits. Ontario author/illustrator Linda Hendry’s Dog Crafts is filled with eyecatching theme projects kids will want ... Read More »

November 10, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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By Frank Augustyn and Shelley Tanaka

Every young ballet fan who has succumbed to the magic of dimming lights, swelling music, and gossamer costumes wonders what it’s really like to be on stage. Famous Canadian dancer Frank Augustyn knows both the ... Read More »

November 10, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Footnotes: Dancing the World’s Best-loved Ballets

By Frank Augustyn and Shelley Tanaka

November 10, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Safe Teen: Powerful Alternatives to Violence

By Anita Roberts

Anita Roberts of Vancouver has forged 20 years of experience teaching her assault prevention program for teens into this new guide to preventing violence. Safe Teen is written in clear, enjoyable language accessible to teens, ... Read More »

November 10, 2003

★ Hummingbirds: A Beginner’s Guide

By Laurel Aziz

Hummingbirds are apparently the most popular birds in North America, and reading these two appealing books about them makes it easy to understand why. Any account of hummingbirds deals in amazing statistics: their wings beat ... Read More »

November 9, 2003

Money: Make It, Spend It, Save It

By J. E. Bogart

While this book is written to show Canadian kids how to be effective money-makers, educated consumers, and successful investors, the majority of young readers will probably be most interested in the chapter on jobs. Based ... Read More »

November 9, 2003

J.r.r. Tolkien: The Man Who Created the Lord of the Rings

By Michael Coren

Michael Coren’s new biography of J.R.R. Tolkien could not have come at a more appropriate time. It follows on the heels of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings being voted the most popular book of ... Read More »

November 9, 2003

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

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