What’s He Doing Now?

When a child asks where a baby brother or sister comes from, one tends to grope about in that vast area of response between the cabbage patch and the path to conception. Via a good-humoured ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Three Against Time

By Margaret Taylor

The time travel convention in children’s books has two obvious appeals. It painlessly ushers readers into a historical era and it allows the young characters more scope for acting independently and heroically than in the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Eenie Meenie Manitoba: Playful Poems and Rollicking Rhymes

By Robert Heidbreder, Scot Ritchie, illus.

This book contains some reworked traditional rhymes and some original poems. “To Be or Not to Be” is an updated version of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor” with modern occupations added and all possible offensive stereotypes ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

No Crystal Stair

By Mairuth Sarsfield

Set in Montreal during the unsettled years of the Second World War, Sarsfield’s first novel depicts a community largely invisible to white society beyond the roles it has assigned them as maids, musicians, Pullman porters. ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Roses for Gita

By Rachna Gilmore, Alice Priestley, illus.

This is Rachna Gilmore’s second story about Gita. In Lights for Gita this young immigrant from India received a cold welcome to Canada when a sleet storm all but ruined her Divali, the Hindu festival ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dolina May

By Ishbel Moore

Seventeen-year-old Dolina May has just stormed out of her drunken boyfriend’s parked car in the middle of a torrential downpour. She stomps away down a muddy country road in the middle of nowhere Manitoba. This ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

How a Plant Grows (crabapple Series)

By Bobbie Kalman

Both these new additions to Crabtree’s Crabapple series will appeal to young animal lovers – and their teachers and parents. These books feature an attractive design, large readable typeface, and many colour photographs. How Animals ... Read More »

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

How Animals Communicate (crabapple Series)

By Bobbie Kalman

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

The Chicken Doesn’t Skate

By Gordon Korman

Although the latest novel from Gordon Korman sports a less-than-stellar cover illustration, the story is up to Korman’s usual standards and his many fans will not be disappointed. The Chicken Doesn’t Skate is aimed squarely ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

I’m Not Convinced

By Beth Goobie

Sharon Frejer and her single mom spent years with her mother’s violent brother Lawrence. Now, they have moved to Edmonton to live with Sharon’s Uncle Bert, an overly critical bigot. As Sharon begins Grade 8 ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

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