My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary

My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary chronicles three years in a young Bosnian girl’s life during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Nadja Halilbegovich, now a writer, singer, and poet living in Toronto, was ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

Trash Action: A Fresh Look at Garbage

By Ann Love and Jane Drake; Mark Thurman, illus.

Trash Action is more than a “fresh look at garbage.” It’s also a fresh attempt to inspire children to care about our world’s garbage challenges and convince them of their individual and collective abilities to ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

The Matchless Six: The Story of Canada’s First Women’s Olympic Team

By Ron Hotchkiss

In Amsterdam in 1928, women competed for the first time in Olympic track and field events. At the time, many Olympic Committee members felt that track and field competition was too strenuous for females. Others ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?

By Stanley Coren

Stanley Coren has been writing books for adults for a while now – with simple yet impossibly ambitious titles such as How Dogs Think and How to Speak Dog – so it makes perfect sense ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

Raising a Little Stink

By Colleen Sydor; Pascale Constantin, illus.

What can you do if your friends and family all take advantage of your good nature? When a lazy lion, a lion tamer, and a mouse all run away from the circus because they’re tired ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

When You Were Small

By Sara O'Leary; Julie Morstad, illus.

Most children are enchanted by tales of their own antics when they were younger, and Henry’s no different. In a nightly ritual he asks his father to tell him about when he was small. And ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Who Likes the Wind?

By Etta Kaner; Marie Lafrance, illus.

Kids Can Press has released an unusual new picture book, Who Likes the Wind?, by Toronto teacher and award-winning science writer Etta Kaner. This story can be read two ways: as a simple expression of ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Grandpa’s Clock

By Rachna Gilmore; Amy Meissner, illus.

The ticking of a clock, the ticking of a heart. Rachna Gilmore’s new story is a richly textured tale of family relationships, particularly between Cayley and her grandpa, who builds clocks. When he’s hospitalized after ... Read More »

April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Waiting for the Macaws: And Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions

By Terry Glavin

To Gary Snyder, “we are all indigenous to this planet, this garden we are being called on … to reinhabit in good spirit.” For Edward O. Wilson, “nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, ... Read More »

April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Bringing Back the Dodo: Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History

By Wayne Grady

The dodo bird is symbolic of humanity’s often indiscriminate domination over nature. Then along come disasters like the tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina to remind us that domination can go both ways. It is ... Read More »

April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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