Pioneer Crafts

By Barbara Greenwood, Heather Collins, illus.

Adults or children who have an interest in folk art or pioneer crafting will want this book, which lives up to the promise of its title beautifully in a gentle, thoughtful, ungimmicky manner. Author Barbara ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

1997 Canadian Internet Directory

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

A short time ago, the Western press fell in love with something called the Internet. The Information Highway was about to arrive, and boy, was it ever going to be great.Four or so years later, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

1997 Canadian Internet Handbook

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Hungry Animals: My First Look at a Food Chain

By Pamela Hickman, Heather Collins, illus.

Although they have not officially been granted a series name, these three new picture books from Kids Can share an identical format. A flap is connected to the outer edge of each left page. Printed ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Seed Grows: My First Look at a Plant’s Life Cycle

By Pamela Hickman, Heather Collins, illus.

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A New Butterfly: My First Look at Metamorphosis

By Pamela Hickman, Heather Collins, illus.

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Lab Rats of Doctor Eclair

By John Bianchi

John Bianchi’s latest children’s book features his familiar, entertaining, high-energy, humorous illustrations. The pictures in The Lab Rats of Doctor Eclair are up to his usual high standards – full of energy and fun. Bianchi ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Don’t Dig So Deep, Nicholas!

By Troon Harrison, Gary Clement, illus.

What to say, what to say. Don’t Dig So Deep, Nicholas! is awfully good in that it’s both awful in places and very good in others. Pointing out the bad side sounds churlish, but praise ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada

By Cecil Foster

Toronto writer Cecil Foster’s A Place Called Heaven falls generally into the category of books that look for answers to problems in the black community from within the community itself – a category that includes ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: History

I Bless You in My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill

By Carl Ballstadt,Elizabeth Hopkins, and Michael A. Peterman, eds.

Catharine Parr Traill and her sister Susanna Moodie both wrote extensively of their adventures as settlers in 19th-century Upper Canada. The melodramatic tales of adversity in Roughing It in the Bush make Moodie now rather ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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