I had a hard time getting into Mummies, the latest in the Strange Science series from Owl Books. But that’s not because the book was dull – far from it. My difficulty lay in trying ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
This husband-and-wife team’s first book (created in conjunction with the Canadian Museum of Nature) compares 10 pairs of similar-looking animals and helps young readers tell the difference between them. Many of the creatures chosen for ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Veteran adventure travel writer Maria Coffey has teamed up with her photographer husband, Dag Goering, and co-author Debora Pearson to produce this third book in Annick’s Adventure Travel series.The Solomon Islands (just off the northwest ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Events
Olivier’s visit to his grandfather’s house, Cat’s Eye Corner, is anything but humdrum. For one thing, people seem to think his new step-step-step-Gramma is a witch; certainly she does have a houseful of cats. Then ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Deals, Industry news
The eleven-year-old heroine of this fast-paced novel is old beyond her years and highly adaptive. Having grown up amidst bombed-out buildings and land mines in Kabul, Afghanistan, Parvana knows her way around dodgy circumstances. Yet ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Two popular writers, Vancouver author Linda Bailey, best known for her award-winning Stevie Diamond comic mystery series, and Toronto-based Frieda Wishinsky, the author of seven children’s books, have turned to the plot device of time ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
Two popular writers, Vancouver author Linda Bailey, best known for her award-winning Stevie Diamond comic mystery series, and Toronto-based Frieda Wishinsky, the author of seven children’s books, have turned to the plot device of time ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
Two popular writers, Vancouver author Linda Bailey, best known for her award-winning Stevie Diamond comic mystery series, and Toronto-based Frieda Wishinsky, the author of seven children’s books, have turned to the plot device of time ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
Life hasn’t been easy for 14 year-old Harold Kline. He’s spent his childhood being victimized by schoolyard toughs because he’s an albino with plaster-white skin, snowy white hair, and thick glasses with black lenses to ... Read More »
February 17, 2004
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