★ Gordon Loggins and the Three Bears

Move over, Goldilocks – here comes Gordon Loggins! In this retelling, the classic tale gets more than a few twists. It’s a story within a story: a young boy named Gordon Loggins, while waiting for ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Enormous Potato

By Aubrey Davis, Dusan Petricic, illus.

The first collaboration by this team took the stone soup motif and made it their own in Bone Button Borscht. This time, the story remains more firmly rooted in traditional soil. In this retelling of ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Morning on the Lake

By Jan Bourdeau Waboose, Karen Reczuch, illus.

Those familiar with the pleasures of summer freedom will appreciate the alternating moods of tranquillity and elation in this book. Narrated in the first person by a young Anishinawbe Ojibway boy, the story spans a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace

By James Wallace

Ever since former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca wrote his autobiography in 1984, there’s been a long-running boom in books by and about chief executive officers. The best of these combine business insight and personal revelation ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett the World’s Most Famous Investor

By Mary Buffett and David Clark

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk

By Richard Rohmer

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

By Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Emma and the Silk Train

By Julie Lawson, Paul Mombourquette, illus.

Julie Lawson is a fine storyteller, and her latest picture book, based on the September 21, 1927 derailment of a silk train along the Fraser River, is another winner. Emma, the daughter of the stationmaster, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Fishing Summer

By Teddy Jam, Ange Zhang, illus.

“When I was a boy my three uncles lived in a big wooden house by the sea” begins the latest book by Teddy Jam, author of Jacob’s Best Sisters. This long first-person narrative in picture ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Spiral Maze

By Patricia Bow

“Neil woke, rising from darkness to darkness.” Patricia Bow snares us with the first line of her first supernatural thriller in English (several of hers have been published in Germany) and doesn’t shake us loose ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

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