February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Completing her trilogy about the Crusades with this volume, Karleen Bradford once again creates a gripping story that brings a distant time and place vividly alive for young readers today. Reflecting contemporary awareness that the ... Read More »
Fans of futuristic fiction will welcome this “somewhere in space” novel by Monica Hughes, award-winning author and acknowledged creator of contemporary Canadian science fiction for young people.The Other Place is an intriguing story about the ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In his playful second book for children, poet Gary Barwin riffs on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Here, a nose and his parents (two old eyes) are desperately poor, and a pair ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Addie is a little girl who is scared of almost everything. She’s scared of the turkey gobbler in the farmyard, wild things that live in the bush, and wolves that howl at night. She’s scared ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The demise of the fairy folk and their tales has been announced for centuries. The Wife of Bath, looking backward nostalgically to the time of King Arthur when the elf-queen danced upon the green, complains ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In the world of the refrigerator (a.k.a. the Wait) the goal is to be Chosen, as the Swiss cheese Louise soon discovers. Everyone there, from slices of bread to cobs of corn, is waiting to ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In Seeing and Believing, a little girl living on the shores of one of the Great Lakes in 1910 longs for her father’s return from sea. Novelist and picture book writer Eliza Clark’s powerful story ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Toronto computer programmer and ex- teacher Greg Wilson has collaborated with illustrator William Lytle to create a fanciful trio of stories with female protagonists. However, the word “sensible” in the title misled me: these stories ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
One of the classic folk tales about danger, disaster, and recovery, the Brothers Grimm story of the wolf who impersonates mother, gains entry to the house, and eats up the little kids is almost too ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Mr. Richard is a giant of a man. He towers above the world like a big black-bearded statue with an old stained fedora perched on his head. He owns the best land in the township, ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books