The Runaway

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

★ Wow Canada! Exploring This Land from Coast to Coast to Coast

By Vivien Bowers, Dan Hobbs and Dianne Eastman, illus.

Wow Canada! is a scrapbook cum journal of a car trip across Canada written from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy named Guy. As the narrator, Guy describes places, flora, fauna, and experiences with a ... Read More »

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

Sophie Sea to Sea

By Norma Charles

Sophie is sad that her family has to move from their Montreal neighbourhood all the way across Canada to their new B.C. home, but like her favourite comic book heroine, Star Girl, she’s ready for ... Read More »

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

Visions

By Eric Walters

Twins Rob and Mark aren’t thrilled about spending two weeks with their mother on King William Island in the Arctic as part of an expedition studying muskox. But the North casts its spell and draws ... Read More »

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

★ The Spirit of Canada: Canada’s Story in Legends, Fiction, Poems, and Songs

By Barbara Hehner, ed.

Anthologies are one of the original, interactive, non-linear technologies. In the real world (as opposed to the reviewer’s world) readers of anthologies dip and skip, fanning out from the familiar to the new, selecting a ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

Wish upon a Unicorn

By Vicki Blum, Alan Barnard, illus.

One day Arica falls through a crack in her grandmother’s kitchen floor and finds herself kidnapped by trolls and dragged into North Bundelag, a land of magic. Soon she is in the clutches of the ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Circle of Silver

By Maxine Trottier

In 1760, 13-year-old John joins his father, Captain MacNeil, on his return to Canada from England. The captain thinks time in the uncharted war zone of the New World will “make a man” out of ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ In Spite of Killer Bees

By Julie Johnston

Aggie, Helen, and Jeannie Quade lurch into tiny Port Desire, Ontario, in a broken-down car, convinced they’re going to whirl right out as millionaires, courtesy of their late grandfather, one of Canada’s wealthiest men. The ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

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