Can’t Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers

After Chrysler boss Lee Iacocca published his autobiography in 1984, it seemed every CEO had a story to tell. While most of these aggrandizing treatments offered readers little more than a recipe for success or ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

How to Achieve Joyful & Confident Parenting

By Penny Shore

This book, by Toronto adult educator Penny Shore, is one of a series of six parenting titles to be launched over the first three months of 2002.The books reflect the philosophies of internationally known child ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Animal Talk: How Animals Communicate Through Sight, Sound and Smell

By Etta Kaner, Greg Douglas, illus.

Invariably when children think about animals talking, their first thoughts are of the many articulate animals they’ve encountered in books, movies, and cartoons. Etta Kaner’s latest book on animal behaviour, Animal Talk, entertainingly and informatively ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook

By Judi Gillies and Jennifer Glossop, Louise Phillips, illus.

Any culinary library worth its salt includes a book that doubles as a source of recipes and as a base for further experimentation. The latest addition to the Kids Can Jumbo series, a vegetarian sequel ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Amazing Women Athletes

By Jill Bryant

What special qualities, besides talent, go into the making of a world-class athlete? Young readers will discover the answer in Jill Bryant’s Amazing Women Athletes, the latest title in The Women’s Hall of Fame Series ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

Jeannie and the Gentle Giants

By Luanne Armstrong

Jeannie Mcleod is angry and scared when separated from her mother for the first time in her life and placed with a foster family. She doesn’t understand why her mentally ill mother has been hospitalized ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

This Is Me

By Stephanie Craig

Stephanie Craig’s first novel, This Is Me, includes all the ingredients of successful young adult fiction: friendship, romance, discord, angst, resolution. This mix results in a sweet, gentle story, but one that lacks a sustained ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

Generals Die in Bed

By Charles Yale Harrison

What do we tell the children? With the world events of last fall, everyone who lives or works with young people had to face that question. What do we tell them about war, justice, vengeance, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

Sky Horse (mustang Mountain 1)

By Sharon Siamon

Right from page three, when a grizzly interrupts Becky’s hissy fit in a mountain meadow, Sky Horse hasn’t a dull moment. Becky is outraged at being stuck in the wilderness of Mustang Mountain Ranch with ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

The White Horse Talisman (the Summer of Magic Quartet)

By Andrea Spalding

Andrea Spalding’s prologue to the first book of her fantasy quartet set in the White Horse Hills of Oxfordshire crackles: “In the Place Beyond Morning, terrible trouble arose.” We’re listening in as the great white ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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