The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey

There’s something about Greenpeace that’s slightly reminiscent of an aging 1960s rock star. Sure, it may still go off on the occasional bender, but on the whole it’s a respectable member of mainstream society. One ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Love and Sweet Food: A Culinary Memoir

By Austin Clarke

It’s like cooking through a plastic bag, the way we spin our food round and round in silent electric mixers and turn to hand-held presses and precision-cut slicers to avoid scenting and staining our fingertips. ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ Beneath the Bridge

By Hazel Hutchins, Ruth Ohi, illus.

In a forest glen, a young boy launches a small paper boat, then watches with excitement and worry as it makes its river journey out into the world, in Hazel Hutchins’ new picture book Beneath ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Hippie House

By Katherine Holubitsky

In her third novel, Alberta author Katherine Holubitsky explores the after-effects of the rape and murder of a teenage girl on a small Ontario community, as recalled by narrator Emma, who was 14 at the ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Thunder from the Sea

By Joan Hiatt Harlow

American writer Joan Hiatt Harlow’s impressions of Newfoundland were shaped by stories told to her in childhood by her mother, who grew up there. Both Harlow’s affection for Newfoundland and the romance of her mother’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sister to the Wolf

By Maxine Trottier

On a street in Quebec in 1703, a girl sees a Pawnee slave branded as punishment for running away. Next day she returns and buys the boy – to set him free. So Trottier sets ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Wild Science: Amazing Encounters Between Animals and the People Who Study Them

By Victoria Miles

"How come scientists always look so happy?” A colleague, looking over my shoulder at the review copy of Victoria Miles’s Wild Science, caught the flavour of the book in a glance. It is true. There’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2004

A Winter’s Tale

By Gail Sidonie Sobat

The second in a planned trilogy of young adult fantasy novels by Edmonton author Gail Sidonie Sobat features a land suffering under the rule of a cruel lord named Winter, who outlaws festivities. The witches ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Mystery of the Frozen Brains

By Marty Chan

Marty Chan hates secrets. They make his stomach churn. The bigger the secret, the harder it is to hide, and Marty is sitting on one “elephant of a secret”: he thinks he’s an alien. Adapted ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Making Room

By Joanne Taylor, Peter Rankin, illus.

Somewhere in 19th-century Cape Breton, a young John William Smith clears land for a one-room house, his few animals, and a couple of apple trees. For a while, he’s contented, but eventually he goes looking ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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