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
This sequel to Animal Heroes tells more amazing stories of heroic animals. Cats and dogs save lives, foil thieves, and rescue other animals in danger. More Animal Heroes features dogs and cats almost exclusively, although ... Read More »
March 9, 2004
When he was only 15, Kenneth Oppel’s first book was recommended for publication by his favourite author, Roald Dahl. Fourteen years later, Oppel (former editor of Q&Q’s BfYP section) has just published his 14th book ... Read More »
March 9, 2004
Vlasta van Kampen thanks scientists and technicians at Agriculture Canada’s Centre for Land and Biological Resources at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa for their interest and continuous flow of information over the three years ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Discovering the Iceman tells eight-to 12-year-olds about the 1991 discovery, identification, and subsequent study of a glacier-preserved, late Stone Age man and his belongings. It’s a book that, though carefully and attractively designed, scores low ... Read More »
March 9, 2004
Early in this memoir, Keath Fraser writes of his subject, “He resisted summary. He took his own measure from a world often foreign to his, the straight world or else another country’s culture, and seldom ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Award-winning performance poet Sheree Fitch (author of There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen and Mable Murple) has teamed with illustrator Darcia Labrosse to produce a book of poems about children’s rights. Peter Gzowski provides the ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
A war is being fought across Canada right now, but it’s one we seldom see dramatized in vivid images on the late-night television news. The war, of course, is the poverty war, and depending on your ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The pond’s cycle begins – naturally enough – in early spring. Mallards hatch, butterflies flit, and herons, snakes, bats, and other pond denizens go about their lives. Deep in winter, as the book ends, turtles ... Read More »
March 9, 2004
The account of one family journeying from “the old country” across the ocean and the continent to develop a homestead on the prairies, The New Land seems deliberately general rather than specific in its references, ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: History
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