Strange New Species: Astonishing Discoveries of Life on Earth

Elin Kelsey brings her experience as a natural historian and public educator to bear in this fine introduction to the search for new species of all kinds. Accessibly and engagingly organized, Strange New Species provides ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

Chock Full of Chocolate

By Elizabeth MacLeod; June Bradford, illus.

This is the latest offering from author Elizabeth MacLeod, who has prepared several children’s cookbooks for Kids Can Press. The book is clearly and attractively laid out, with 45 recipes organized into sections, such as ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made

By Bill Slavin

How does toothpaste get into the tube? How do CDs come to be? Addressing the curiosity that kids have about the origins of familiar objects, author/illustrator Bill Slavin explains the processes involved in making 69 ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About Aids

By Deborah Ellis

In the summer of 2003, bestselling author and peace activist Deborah Ellis visited Malawi and Zambia to collect stories of children orphaned by AIDS. This powerful book is the result of her efforts. It succeeds ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

Harry Houdini: A Magical Life

By Elizabeth MacLeod

Elizabeth MacLeod, a Toronto writer who has authored biographies on the Wright brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, and Lucy Maud Montgomery, turns her attention this time to Harry Houdini. As part of the Kids Can Press ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

The Bonemender

By Holly Bennett

Spirited, thoughtful, generous-hearted, The Bonemender joins the ever-growing realm of YA fantasy series. Like its counterparts, the novel is set in a vaguely medieval past, in a peaceful kingdom under siege, and features characters human ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

The Horse’s Shadow

By Lawrence Scanlan

Claire Vigere is growing up in a happy habitant family in Lower Canada in 1864. Claire’s obsession is horses, particularly the hardy Canadian breed they raise on her farm. She loves to race and even ... Read More »

October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

Four Steps to Death

By John Wilson

In the summer of 1942, Hitler sent a massive army of German tanks, bombers, and infantrymen east into Russia to take the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd). What was supposed to be a glorious victory ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

Frosty Is a Stupid Name

By Troy Wilson; Dean Griffiths, illus.

This meandering winter’s tale begins with the challenge of naming a snowman. Jenny rejects Frosty as “a stupid name” and then, after dismissing a host of others as too long, too short, too hot, or ... Read More »

October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Peek-a-Little Boo

By Sheree Fitch; Laura Watson, illus.

A celebration of babies, this picture book features a different infant or toddler for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by a four-line rhyme ending “Peek-a-little boo!” The catchy rhymes include nonsense syllables and simple ... Read More »

October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

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