January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In All You Can Eat, Linda McQuaig assembles an impressive indictment of the prevailing economic system. By defining and demystifying the terms, naming the suspects (individuals, institutions, and ideologies), and providing a credible historical and ... Read More »
Determining the role of spirituality in one’s life is a challenge for most people. Some argue that they don’t need spirituality; others identify as atheist or agnostic; still others believe in a higher being, but ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Determining the role of spirituality in one’s life is a challenge for most people. Some argue that they don’t need spirituality; others identify as atheist or agnostic; still others believe in a higher being, but ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Determining the role of spirituality in one’s life is a challenge for most people. Some argue that they don’t need spirituality; others identify as atheist or agnostic; still others believe in a higher being, but ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Jennifer Wolfe, a Canadian teacher living in Michigan, has come up with an innovative way to invite young readers into her first picture book. The Mess is a simple story about an untidy family and ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Say the word “castle” and kids think of towers, moats, princesses, and knights. Toronto author Richard Scrimger plays with these magical elements in his latest picture book, Princess Bun Bun. In this delightful sequel to ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Although adults may have forgotten this, any child who’s been enraptured by the rhymes, rhythms, riddles, and wordplay of Dennis Lee, Mother Goose, or Dr. Seuss instinctively knows that spieltrieb (as the German critic Baumgarten ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Ananse the spiderman is, like fellow tricksters Raven, Coyote, Jaguar, and Br’er Rabbit, always getting himself into extraordinary trouble. A lazybones and greedy-guts who is constantly making mischief, he’s also a clever fast-talker brazen enough ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
This beautifully written novel from historical fiction writer Joan Clark will be a real pleaser for the kids who love Jean Little’s works. The Word for Home is a tribute to life in 1926 Newfoundland ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
While perhaps not the most boring book ever created for young readers, If the World Were a Village is certainly a contender. A worthy attempt to inculcate global awareness in children, David J. Smith’s information ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction