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Finding Out About Whales

By Elin Kelsey, Susan Nagy, illus.

Whales and dinosaurs are the classic darlings of junior animal research. The largest and oldest animals on Earth have such a perpetual following that even very ordinary books about them often seem to find a ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

The Newest and Coolest Dinosaurs

By Phillip J. Currie and Colleayn O. Mastin, Jan Sovak, illus.

Whales and dinosaurs are the classic darlings of junior animal research. The largest and oldest animals on Earth have such a perpetual following that even very ordinary books about them often seem to find a ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

Munschworks

By Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko, illus.

The fall season heralds two new books from Robert Munsch, that fixture of Canadian children’s literature. Get Out of Bed!, Munsch’s latest, published by Scholastic, takes the idea of sleeping in to a whole new ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Get Out of Bed!

By Robert Munsch, Alan and Lea Daniel, illus.

The fall season heralds two new books from Robert Munsch, that fixture of Canadian children’s literature. Get Out of Bed!, Munsch’s latest, published by Scholastic, takes the idea of sleeping in to a whole new ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Someone Is Reading This Book

By Alice Priestley

These two new picture books deal with reading in radically different ways. In The Girl Who Hated Books, Meena lives in a house crammed with books of all kinds. Her parents are obsessive readers, and ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Girl Who Hated Books

By Manjusha Pawagi, Leanne Franson, illus.

These two new picture books deal with reading in radically different ways. In The Girl Who Hated Books, Meena lives in a house crammed with books of all kinds. Her parents are obsessive readers, and ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Midnight in the Mountains

By Julie Lawson, Sheena Lott, illus.

A young girl sits by the fire. This is her first night in the mountain cabin, and although her parents and her brother are asleep, she is excited and wakeful. As the fire burns to ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Arctic Stories

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Langer Krykorka, illus.

Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Langer Krykorka, collaborators on A Promise Is a Promise, have created another colourful mixture of Northern legend and historical fact. Arctic Stories is based on Kusugak’s childhood experiences in the ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Ark in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Times

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

In the same vein as the hugely popular Politically Correct Bedtime Stories for Adults comes a Canadian version. The Ark in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Times, collected by anthologist Alberto Manguel, is ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Preferred Lies: A Collection of Short Stories

By Wayne Curtis

The 13 stories in Wayne Curtis’s collection Preferred Lies are mainly set in the Maritimes, and deal with ordinary people in ordinary situations. Loneliness is one of the dominant themes. In “Winter’s Night,” an old ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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