Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure

By Maria Coffey with Debora Pearson, Dag Goering, photog.

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

Cat’s Eye Corner

By Terry Griggs

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 Breadwinner

By Deborah Ellis

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

A Quest in Time

By Frieda Wishinsky, Bill Slavin, illus.

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

Adventures in the Middle Ages

By Linda Bailey, Bill Slavin, illus.

February 17, 2004

Adventures in Ancient Egypt

By Linda Bailey, Bill Slavin, illus.

February 17, 2004

Ghost Boy

By Iain Lawrence

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

After Hamelin

By Bill Richardson

The story of Hamelin, rid of its plague of rats by a mysterious piper who then entices away the town’s children when the mayor refuses to pay the promised 500 gold ducats, is a well-known ... Read More »

February 17, 2004

★ Pa’s Harvest

By Jan Andrews, Cybèle Young, illus.

Veteran storyteller Jan Andrews, author of the Canadian storytelling classics Very Last First Time and The Auction, has taken a true Depression-era story and moulded it into a tiny literary gem. Pa’s Harvest feels just ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Before Wings

By Beth Goobie

In Beth Goobie’s latest novel, Before Wings, 15-year-old Adrien struggles with the aftermath of a brain aneurysm. Numb with fear of “the Big One” that doctors predict will finish her off, she entombs herself in ... Read More »

February 17, 2004

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