Breakout Dinosaurs: Canada’s Coolest and Scariest Ancient Creatures Return!

Kids’ books about dinosaurs roam the Earth in much higher numbers these days than their flesh-ripping, plant-stripping subjects ever did. Though advances in the field of paleontology are always being made, when it comes to ... Read More »

November 7, 2007

Silent in an Evil Time: The Brave War of Edith Cavell

By Jack Batten

Every few years, a new Cavell-for-kids biography appears, and this offering by Jack Batten is a welcome update to the collection. Targeting many of the discrepancies and myths found in previous books, Batten aims for ... Read More »

November 7, 2007

The Art of the Possible: A Handbook for Political Activism

By Amanda Sussman

The title, as well as the content, of Amanda Sussman’s guide to lobbying the federal government neatly demonstrates just how far we’ve come since the heady days of the 1960s, when “Be Realistic, Demand the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide

By Laura Murray, Sam Trosow

Canadian Copyright is a timely but risky book. Its arrival falls smack between the Liberals’ failed attempt to revamp Canadian copyright law and the rumblings of an imminent Conservative foray into the same territory. If ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

My Mother’s Daughter

By Rona Maynard

Rona Maynard has deep roots in the worlds of art and storytelling. She was the editor of Chatelaine for 10 years. Before that, she worked at Maclean’s under Peter C. Newman. Her mother, Fredelle Maynard, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Long Shot: How the Winnipeg Falcons Won the First Olympic Gold

By Eric Zweig

Sports historian and writer Eric Zweig’s engaging Long Shot – an entry in Lorimer’s Recordbooks series of Canadian sports stories for reluctant readers – tells the tale of the Winnipeg Falcons, the first Canadian hockey ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

Out of Line: Growing Up Soviet

By Tina Grimberg

First-time Toronto writer Tina Grimberg chronicles her life as a young girl in 1970s Ukraine in this engaging memoir. Grimberg records the terrors and hardships of the communist regime – the fear of informers, the ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

For Those About to Write: How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

By Dave Bidini

Despite endless new techno-entertainments that siphon off young people’s creative juices, the urge to write more than text messages miraculously persists. Teachers, librarians, and parents recognizing symptoms of that itch in students and offspring can ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The Feathered Cloak: The Trilogy of the Tree, Part 1

By Sean Dixon

Our epic tale begins in the year 933. Two kings – Erik Blood-Axe and Haakon the Good, brothers who were separated at birth – are competing to be rightful leader of the great frozen nation ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane

By Polly Horvath

How can you go on living after a devastating personal loss? The teenage heroines of Polly Horvath’s latest YA offering think they know: find some discarded airplane parts, put them together, and simply fly away. ... Read More »

November 5, 2007

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