★ Listen to Us: The World’s Working Children

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

★ Circus

By Linda Granfield

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

★ The Hollow Tree

By Janet Lunn

Some months ago, writer Janet Lunn published an article about her distress at the trend toward turning Canadian historical sites into tawdry theme parks. In the article, Lunn is modest about her own reputation as ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Hockey the Nhl Way: Goal Scoring

By Sean Rossiter

In a country where the sport of hockey comes pretty close to being the nation’s official religion and our one unifying cultural institution, young fanatics have no end of information sources on their hockey heroes ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

★ Hockey the Nhl Way: Goaltending

By Sean Rossiter

March 3, 2004

Hockey Goaltending for Young Players: An Instructional Guide

By François Allaire

March 3, 2004

Dracula

By Bram Stoker,retold by Tim Wynne-Jones, Laszlo Gál, illus.

Tim Wynne-Jones seems to have a golden touch when it comes to books for young people. His very first book, Zoom, was a huge Canadian and international success with its combination of Wynne-Jones’s own bizarre ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Scribes & Scoundrels

By George Galt

Journalist George Galt’s debut novel satirizes the self-important world of Toronto magazines, but most readers – even those who can’t relate to the setting, the editorial offices of a fictional monthly called Berger’s – won’t ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation

By Kathleen O’Grady and Paula Wansbrough

Anne Frank referred to the onset of her first period as a “sweet secret,” and anticipated its arrival with “wonder, joy, confusion and fear.” This new anthology combines adult reminiscences and candid adolescent reactions to ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

The Reality Machine

By Cliff Burns

With the crime rate falling but angst about crime continuing to rise, writer Cliff Burns skillfully captures the anxieties of modern life. In The Reality Machine, he offers 15 stories that startle without showing a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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