The Best of Pape’s Notes: Fifteen Years of Sound Financial Advice

Every year the market is flooded with investment books that tell you how to make your first million on the stock market and retire in comfort. But does anyone really get rich from reading these ... Read More »

March 4, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Alberta Fact Book

By Mark Zuehlke

The Alberta Fact Book encourages browsing. While it’s primarily meant as an alphabetized reference book, the volume’s 175 entries may be read as informative, entertaining essays in their own right. Most everyone, for instance, knows ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Wings to Fly

By Celia Barker Lottridge

In this sequel to the award-winning Ticket to Curlew, the Ferrier family, after three years on their prairie homestead, are feeling quite settled. As 11-year-old Josie starts to take note of the way the adult ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Crazy for Canada

By Noa Schwartz, Mick Beaumont and Susan Tebbutt, illus.

Librarians looking for a picture book about Canada for young children will be pleased with this offering from a small new publisher. Crazy for Canada is a short book that features each region of the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The First Red Maple Leaf

By Ludmila Zeman

This story takes place long ago in a northern world ruled by Iceheart, the terrible spirit of winter. Life is hard for people and animals alike. One day a boy finds a goose trapped beneath ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Matthew and the Midnight Ball Game

By Allen Morgan, Michael Martchenko, illus.

Just in time for baseball season comes this latest offering in the Morgan/Martchenko series about young Matthew’s dream adventures. Daytime fantasies about a ball game on World Series day become nighttime dreams of a journey ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Velociraptor

By Jennifer Glossop with Dale Russell, Ely Kish, illus.

If you’re looking for a gift that will excite children, Velociraptor, the sixth in a series of dinosaur kits, is a good choice. The kit consists of a box containing a grey plastic egg about ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Superkids: Young Heroes in Action

By Leslie Garrett

Ever since the Victorians invented childhood we have considered hero stories appropriate fare for the young. Previous generations were likely to be given Robin Hood; we’re more likely to serve up Rick Hansen. But the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Getting Out of Town

By Connie Barnes Rose

The setting of these linked stories is an unnamed, presumably fictional, small town in Nova Scotia, but it will seem familiar to readers from small towns across North America. It’s the kind of town where ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Anchoress

By Esta Spalding

In her second book, Toronto poet Esta Spalding ambitiously attempts an entire narrative in verse. Anchoress is a book-length poem that explores the relationship between two American sisters (Helen and France), their Canadian lover (Peter), ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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