Ghostliners: Exploring the World’s Greatest Lost Ships

By Robert Ballard with text by Rick Archbold, Ken Marschall, illus.

A book about the hulls of ships lying on the ocean floor could be uninspiring, but author Rick Archbold’s clever combination of personal anecdotes with underwater descriptions makes for an interesting read. Based on the ... Read More »

February 19, 2004

★ What If? Amazing Stories Selected by Monica Hughes

By Monica Hughes

The name of Monica Hughes on a title page generally signals a welcome venture into science fiction or fantasy for young readers. She came into prominence in Canadian children’s literature with her works of science ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Abbi: Make or Break (stage School Series)

By Geena Dare

The Stage School series, a British series first published by Orchard Books in 1998 and now making its debut in Canada, follows the lives and dreams of a group of new students at William S. ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Events

★ Mina’s Spring of Colors

By Rachna Gilmore

In her new novel, Rachna Gilmore, winner of last year’s Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature, again shows her empathetic insight into young people’s concerns and her gift for capturing the lively contemporary slang of ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Imagine That!

By Janet Wilson

Well-known Canadian illustrator Janet Wilson has created a book that melds fiction and non-fiction to highlight events and achievements of the 20th century. A conversation between Great Aunt Violet and her great grandniece Elizabeth flows ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mercy’s Birds

By Linda Holeman

Linda Holeman’s second YA novel (she’s the author of Promise Song) is the story of Mercy, a 15-year-old loner living with her mother and aunt in a working-class neighbourhood in what is likely Winnipeg. Mercy ... Read More »

February 19, 2004

★ On My Island

By Marie-Louise Gay

On a little island in a sea of the imagination, a boy and his animal friends watch the world drift by. Nothing happens, the boy narrator tells us throughout this deceptively simple picture book, but ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Colours of Carol Molev

By Beth Goobie

Never mind “La Vie en Rose”: in Beth Goobie’s latest novel for young adults, the protagonist sees the world in one overwhelming hue after another. When 16-year-old Carol Molev begins to tune out of reality ... Read More »

February 19, 2004

She

By Claire Harris

Who is “She”? The enigmatic title of Claire Harris’s seventh book of poetry refers to a Trinidadian immigrant living in Calgary named Penelope-Marie Lancet. We learn of her tragic life in a series of erratic ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Another Gravity

By Don McKay

Another Gravity, B.C. poet Don McKay’s ninth book, weaves together three dozen poems by a writer who has surely thought a great deal about Shakespeare’s famous lines concerning lunatics, lovers, and poets who give “a ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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