Python Play and Other Recipes for Fun

By Robert Heidbreder, Karen Patkau, illus.

This delightful and lively book of poems for younger children is a pleasure to read aloud. Vancouver author, teacher, and Greek and Latin scholar Robert Heidbreder, who wrote the collections of poems Don’t Eat Spiders ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls

By Susan Musgrave, ed.

Susan Musgrave has selected seven riveting accounts of epiphanies in the teenage years of Canadian female writers. What is impressive about this polished collection is that apart from Musgrave and Marion Quednau, most of the ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

Baby Penguin

By Aubrey Lang,Wayne Lynch, photog.

Baby Penguin is Lang and Lynch’s second book in their Nature Babies series, the first title being The Adventures of Baby Bear (published in July). Both books describe the maturation process of the baby animal ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

One Small Garden

By Barbara Nichol, Barry Moser, illus.

The garden … is hidden from the street. It’s been here for a hundred years, nestled close beside the house – a house built long ago behind another house. This is a garden you would ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

Firedancers

By Jan Bourdeau Waboose, C.J. Taylor, illus.

The first stunning image in Firedancers is the hot orange-yellow-red of a brilliant autumn landscape at sunset. The world is on fire with light and colour, sky and trees blending with the clothing and faces ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion

By Linda Granfield

While Linda Granfield’s book In Flanders Fields used John McCrae and his famous poem to introduce a young audience to the First World War, her companion volume, Where Poppies Grow, provides a much more comprehensive ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

The Holographic Night Sky

By Kenneth Hewitt-White, Kathryn Adams, illus.

This magazine-style book is an easy-to-use guide to the stars, constellations, and planets that’s a thorough primer on basic astronomy. It is accompanied by a comprehensive kit that contains a smaller “night sky observer’s handbook,” ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

The Runaway

By Bernice Thurman Hunter

In her award-winning historical fiction, Bernice Thurman Hunter evokes just what life felt like for her young characters in bygone eras. She winningly does it again in her latest book, The Runaway, set in post-Second ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

The Science and Story of Titanic

By Susan Hughes and Steve Santini, Margo Davies Leclair, illus.

Is there anything new to be said in the wake of the huge explosion of interest in the doomed ocean liner over the last few years? While there may not be much, the publishers of ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

The Figure Skating Book: A Young Person’s Guide to Figure Skating

By Debbi Wilkes

Debbi Wilkes is familiar to any Canadian who watches figure skating on TV, as she is not only a former Olympic medal-winner herself but a regular commentator on televised skating competitions and host of the ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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Python Play and Other Recipes for Fun

Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls

Baby Penguin

One Small Garden

Firedancers

★ Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion

The Holographic Night Sky

The Runaway

The Science and Story of Titanic

The Figure Skating Book: A Young Person’s Guide to Figure Skating

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