Chickadee’s Animal Adventures: Discover the World’s Amazing Animals

This animal anthology is divided into nine chapters, each dealing with a different habitat: the country, the city, fresh water, the prairies, the forest, the mountains, the ocean, the desert, and the “world’s coldest places.” ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

The Bone Cage

By Angie Abdou

B.C. writer Angie Abdou chronicles the rise and fall of swimmer Sadie Jorgensen and wrestler Tom “Digger” Stapleton in her first novel, The Bone Cage. A tale of two athletes, The Bone Cage alternates between ... Read More »

July 3, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Way Cool License Plate Book

By Leonard Wise

Toronto writer and license plate buff Leonard Wise devotes himself to the weird and wonderful world of vanity license plates in this 64-page compendium of plate history, road-trip games, and notable examples of North American ... Read More »

June 26, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Stealing Nasreen

By Farzana Doctor

The process of leaving one’s country and finding a sense of belonging in another is often rife with uncertainty and turmoil. What makes Stealing Nasreen such a riveting read is the way it takes this ... Read More »

June 25, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Toopy Goes Bananas

By Dominique Jolin and Carole Tremblay

Award-winning French Canadian author and illustrator Dominique Jolin has developed a successful empire based on the adventures of Toopy, a mouse with a wild imagination, and Binoo, his silent-but-game cat companion. The original stories translated ... Read More »

June 18, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Black Sheep

By Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout

This teen romance is rather wholesome, and that’s not just because it’s about a girl who goes to live with a save-the-earth, granola-eating hippie family. Sandy Rideout and Yvonne Collins depend on the formulae of ... Read More »

June 18, 2007

Baboon

By David Jones

Returning to the African savannah where they study baboons, 14-year-old Gerry and his biologist parents go down in a plane crash. When Gerry awakens, his parents are gone and he is transformed. Suddenly, he is ... Read More »

June 18, 2007

The Great Number Rumble: A Story of Math in Surprising Places

By Cora Lee and Gillian O'Reilly; Virginia Gray, illus.

Given the growing list of titles like this that combine fiction and non-fiction, it’s time to coin a new term to describe such a book. Perhaps “info-fiction” might be appropriate.The “info” part of this book ... Read More »

June 18, 2007

Mr. Chickee’s Messy Mission

By Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis’s first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, won the Newbery Honor, the Coretta Scott King Honor, and others, and his next book, Bucking the Sarge, received similar acclaim. Most recently, ... Read More »

June 18, 2007

Island of Hope and Sorrow: The Story of Grosse Ile

By Anne Renaud

During its 105 years of service as a quarantine station, Grosse Île was the first stop in the New World for more than 4 million immigrants. Part of a new Lobster Press series on Canadian ... Read More »

June 18, 2007

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