The Lost Island

Almost 100 years ago, Chief Joe Capilano told this story to Pauline Johnson, the daughter of a Mohawk chief and British mother. Johnson, Canada’s first native author published in English, was highly celebrated in the ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Franklin’s Big Search-and-Solve Flap Book

By Sean Jeffrey, Jelena Sisic and Shelley Southern, illus.

This oversized board book is a fresh entry in the wide-ranging Kids Can series based on the characters created by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark. Franklin the detective and his friend Bear are on the ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

A Treasure at Sea for Dragon and Me: Water Safety for Kids (and Dragons)

By Jean E. Pendziwol, Martine Gourbault, illus.

It’s been six years since Dragon first appeared in Jean E. Pendziwol’s fire safety picture book, No Dragons for Tea. The book quickly became a favourite of parents, teachers, and librarians looking for a fun, ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Boy Who Loved Bananas

By George Elliott, Andrej Krystoforski. illus.

If there is a moral at the heart of George Elliott’s first children’s book, it’s that monkeys are fun and that doing some things to excess out of sheer enthusiasm is not all that bad ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Bigbeard’s Hook

By Evan Solomon, Bill Slavin, illus.

Shiver me timbers! Evan Solomon, wunderkind co-founder of the now-defunct Shift magazine, hip television host, journalist, and novelist, is now also a children’s writer. Bigbeard’s Hook is the first in a picture book series called ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Snakes

By Adrienne Mason, Nancy Gray Ogle, illus.

There are essentially two ways to put together a book of animal facts. The first is to find an outlandish hook (like “Man-Eating Rodents,” or “How Animals Mate”), or else jazz up what you have ... Read More »

March 14, 2005

Animals Migrating: How, When, Where and Why Animals Migrate

By Etta Kaner, Pat Stephens, illus.

Imagination plays an important role in Etta Kaner’s newest book about animals. The author of Animals at Work and Animal Defenses now gives readers a fun and informative look at the many ways and reasons ... Read More »

March 14, 2005

The Gravesavers

By Sheree Fitch

In Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, there is a monument to the victims and survivors of the SS Atlantic, a steamship that sank just off the coast in April 1873. The passengers were bound from Liverpool ... Read More »

March 14, 2005

I Wrote on All Four Walls: Teens Speak Out on Violence

By Fran Fearnley, ed.

For teen victims of violence, what keeps them isolated in silence is their feeling of shame. For teen aggressors who bully and beat siblings and schoolmates, it is their inability to acknowledge and own the ... Read More »

March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Sports Hall of Weird

By Kevin Sylvester

Fans of CBC Radio in southern Ontario have come to know Kevin Sylvester as the man who delivers their morning sports reports with a quirky sense of humour, a love of obscure trivia, and a ... Read More »

March 14, 2005

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