Young adult novels tend to follow a standard plot: basically decent kid suffers a disruption of normal life – loss of a parent, acquisition of a step-parent, a change in fortune. Kid acts out, falls ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is an international investment agreement and global trade regime being negotiated by 29 industrial states including Canada. Authors Maude Barlow, national volunteer chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In The Invisible Day, we’re introduced to fifth-grader Billie Stoner and – almost more importantly – to New York City, which is at once the book’s biggest asset and greatest drawback.Billie lives with her mother ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
Born in Canada to Swedish immigrant parents in the early 20th century, 12-year-old Karin sees herself as a modern Canadian girl. Her father speaks English: why does her mother cling to her language and old-country ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
Since the 1940s when Scuffy the Tugboat and the canoe in Paddle-to-the-Sea made their epic journeys down the eastern waterways to the Atlantic, the idea of a little boat crossing the vastness of North America ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
There are many stories of how maple syrup was discovered but none as moving as the fictionalized one told in Maple Moon, where maple syrup is only one of the discoveries made.Crook tells the story ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Jeremiah does not fit the down-and-out image of an illiterate old man. He’s led a particularly successful life on the farm, where he builds split-rail fences, cooks buttermilk pancakes, and grows delicious vegetables. Although he ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
“Earkin-Hearkin/ Eyekin-Spykin/ Cheeky-Chucky/ Chin-chin-chin/ And down the hatch!” So goes the translation of a Yiddish rhyme in this delightful collection, which encourages parents and caregivers to interact with babies through songs and rhymes and brings ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
Toronto author Jane Springer, who spent a decade working with UNICEF in India, Mozambique, and Nepal, has written a comprehensive, accessible, thoughtful, and direct book that should be in every school and public library in ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
Since 2400 BC, when animal and acrobat acts were first performed, circuses have captivated audiences around the world. In her latest book, Linda Granfield (In Flanders Fields, Amazing Grace) details the circus’s evolution, from its ... Read More »
March 3, 2004
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