A Streak of Luck

For her second novel, Toronto writer Richelle Kosar imagines that life-altering event that we’ve all dreamed of at one time or another – winning the lottery. Appropriately, she uses this plot vehicle to discuss the ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Broken Accidents

By Phlip Arima

In this collection of punchy short-short stories, performance poet Phlip Arima delivers a quirky mix: dark satire of our preoccupation with convenience, consumerism, and convention; surreal journeys into the subconscious; and confounding dialogues. When they ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Did Dinosaurs Eat? and Other Things You Want to Know About Dinosaurs

By Elizabeth MacLeod, Gordon Sauvé, illus.

What Did Dinosaurs Eat? is the second collaboration between Toronto author Elizabeth MacLeod and Hamilton, Ontario, illustrator Gordon Sauvé. The first, Dinosaurs: The Fastest, the Fiercest, the Most Amazing, covered similar ground, introducing younger children ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

A First Book of Canadian Art

By Richard Rhodes

This gorgeous book proves that Canadian art doesn’t begin and end with the Group of Seven. It takes the reader on a journey through the history of our art, from the petroglyphs and masks of ... Read More »

January 30, 2004

Ghosts

By Sylvia Funston, Joe Weissmann, illus.

With Halloween on the horizon, Sylvia Funston’s Ghosts arrives at just the right time to explain the history, science, and mythology of spirits. The text reunites the prolific Funston (Scary Science, Animal Smarts) with illustrator ... Read More »

January 30, 2004

The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts

By Valerie Wyatt, John Mantha, illus.

How many kids know that the first Canadian to climb the dizzy heights of Mount Everest was Calgarian Laurie Skreslet in 1982? Or that Superman first flew in 1932 in the imagination of his creator, ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Authors

Baa! the Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read About Genes and Cloning

By Cynthia Pratt Nicolson, Rose Cowles, illus.

Baa! may very well be, as its subtitle promises, the most interesting book on the topic of genes written exclusively for kids. Certainly the first engaging book for children about the topic, it’s part of ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Emily Carr Mystery

By Eric Wilson

Among the most popular kids’ whodunits are B.C. writer Eric Wilson’s Tom and Liz Austen mysteries, which have sold more than a million books. For 25 years, those intrepid amateur-detective siblings have been solving crimes ... Read More »

January 30, 2004

The Goodfellow Chronicles, Book One: The Sacred Seal

By J.C. Mills

Moving into the rickety old Hawthorne house in New England is no fun for 10-year-old Sam Middleton, who doesn’t like his new house or room. Until, that is, he encounters mouse-sized Mr. Goodfellow. Goodfellow is ... Read More »

January 30, 2004

Boys’ Own: An Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers

By Tim Wynne-Jones, ed.

Like a banquet featuring a dish or two for every taste, Tim Wynne-Jones provides young readers with 20 short stories by contemporary Canadian writers, all originally published in the last 16 years. He cheerfully acknowledges ... Read More »

January 30, 2004

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