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
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
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
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
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
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
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! 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 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
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
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