Did you know that different hummingbirds make different sounds depending on the shapes of their feathers? This is just one of the fascinating facts you’ll learn from Somerville House’s newest book and activity package.From B.C. ... Read More »
It’s the subtitle, rather than the title, that more accurately describes the contents of this book about scientists and explorers who put themselves in dangerous situations while proving a theory, creating an invention, or exploring ... Read More »
Newspapers in China called Chris Patten a criminal, a serpent, and a whore. The country’s politicians and diplomats alternately snubbed him, scolded him, and threatened him. He was second-guessed and undercut by traditionalists in Britain’s ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Any book that attempts to introduce young readers to another culture, and impel them to question the values of their own, is admirable. Originally published in Brazil in 1996 as Historias de indio, and translated ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book links
Christopher Ondaatje, former stockbroker and investment banker, continues to be consumed by Africa. His earlier book, Leopard in the Afternoon, grew out of a trip there in the late 1980s in search of the leopard. ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
More often than not, books that claim to cover Canada from coast-to-coast appear as thinly veiled tourism brochures or unity propaganda. Thankfully, Harmony: Photographic Journeys Across Our Cultural Boundaries is neither. Marrying the images of ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Sportscaster Paul Romanuk – a mainstay on the all-sports network TSN – has developed a sideline writing hockey books for kids, including the annual Hockey Superstars series.In Tough Guys of Hockey, he takes a look ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Awards
The murder of a marginal, emotionally unstable, onetime member of the revolutionary separatist group the Front de Liberation du Québec (FLQ) in a Paris apartment in 1971 was the linchpin of a Canadian security operation ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Andrea resents the idea of being a junior bridesmaid at her cousin’s wedding. Defiantly dressed in overalls at the rehearsal dinner, she listens sulkily to her grandfather’s tales of tunnels that ran beneath the streets ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Authors
Everything’s coming up roses for 13-year-old Meryl, in training since the age of seven as a musician and storyteller, as she sets out for the magical island of Avalon. Meryl hopes to become a bard ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Events
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