Why Is the Sky Blue? and Other Outdoor Questions

By Catherine Ripley, Scot Ritchie, illus.

All children ask questions, but at the preschool and early-elementary level they have an awesome capacity for wonder. Four-year-olds are noted for asking why. It is this appetite for answers that Catherine Ripley seeks to ... Read More »

March 10, 2004

Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers

By David Booth et al.

Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers is a useful compendium of teaching strategies for the elementary grades. Unlike books for parents such as Paul Kropp’s, The Reading Solution, which can be easily read ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Web Weavers and Other Spiders

By Bobbie Kalman

Unlike Miss Muffet, I happen to like spiders and actually provide comfortable lodging to a great assortment of the industrious arachnids in my old house. One of Crabtree’s seven newly released Crabapple starter books by ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

I Can Make Jewelry (i Can Make Series)

By Mary Wallace

Kindergarten children are a tough crafting audience not only because of their limited dexterity and high expectations, but also because parents of this age group demand happiness all around for effort exerted. Mary Wallace hits ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Whose Bright Idea Was It? True Stories of Invention

By Larry Verstraete

Whose Bright Idea Was It? is a contribution to the genre of books that present us with lists of interesting, unusual, and humorous facts. It’s aimed at kids as well as “children of all ages.” ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Why Do Animals Do That? (crabapple Series)

By Bobbie Kalman and Greg Nickles

With its colourful photographs and involving text, this picture book really rewards browsing. It features plenty of pictures, an attractive design, a large, readable typeface, a glossary, and an index. The text describes a variety ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Worm Pie (shooting Star Series)

By Beverly Scudamore

Scholastic’s Shooting Star series features believable stories with realistic characters and situations. Worm Pie tells a straightforward story about a young girl named Tara who is coping with two big problems: a new teacher, whose ... Read More »

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

Murder at Hockey Camp (the Screech Owls Series)

By Roy MacGregor

The fourth book in the Screech Owls hockey/ adventure series is somewhat short on hockey action, but it more than compensates with a fast-paced murder mystery. The Screech Owl gang is attending a summer hockey ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

If Two Are Dead

By Robert Sutherland

This is the fourth mystery featuring teenage detectives Sandy and David and it is just as action-packed as the previous ones. This time, David and his Scottish friend Sandy (short for Alexandra) are scouting out ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

What’s Tuesday?

By Mitzi Dale

Not many comic young adult novels use death as an opening device. This one does, as 16-year-old Stephanie describes her grandfather’s final moment – a nosedive into a plate of pea soup at the family ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

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