Bigbeard’s Hook

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

Rules for Life

By Darlene Ryan

Sixteen-year-old Izzy Sullivan doesn’t want her father to remarry. They’ve become more like best friends than father and daughter since her mother died, and she doesn’t want things to change. But her dad goes ahead ... Read More »

March 14, 2005

Elixir

By Eric Walters

Elixir, the latest work from Eric Walters, takes as its backdrop the story of the discovery of insulin by Canadian scientist Frederick Banting and his research assistant Charles Best. Set in the hot summer of ... Read More »

March 14, 2005

Getting to First Base with Danalda Chase

By Matt Beam

Matt Beam’s first YA novel is a case of close contact with the seventh-grade mind – worse, the seventh-grade boy’s mind, newly addled by testosterone. If you’re a seventh-grade boy, however, you may be relieved ... Read More »

March 14, 2005

Bearcub and Mama

By Sharon Jennings, Melanie Watt, illus.

Bearcub and Mama is the tender story of a young bearcub who follows his mother wherever she goes, learning how to catch fish, dig for grubs, climb trees, and find honey. As he grows he ... Read More »

March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

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