January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Kids grow up so fast. And Keltie Thomas, former editor of OWL magazine, has devised another way to nudge them along with a straightforward guide that hopes to have “fixed income investment” rolling off kids’ ... Read More »
I Remember Korea: Veterans Tell Their Stories of the Korean War, by award-winning author Linda Granfield, has much to recommend it. The text is timely, given both the renewed U.S.-North Korean tension and the increasing ... Read More »
January 15, 2004
Written as part of the Mysterious You series, Aha! is an eclectic overview of scientific, cultural, and anecdotal information about intelligence. The design is attractive with its lush palette of lime, lilac, peach, and rose, ... Read More »
January 15, 2004
In Attack of the Killer Video Book, Mark Shulman and Hazlitt Krog, two veteran American filmmaker/writers who specialize in young people’s film and video production, provide everything young people need to know to create their ... Read More »
January 15, 2004
In Hold On to Your Kids, Vancouver doctor and writer Gabor Maté and developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld detail Neufeld’s theory of peer orientation. Using examples from his own life and from the children and families ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
The short poems in Small Arguments are tender snapshots of nature’s often overlooked bounty. No verbal flab invades the images as the poetry magically explores the essence and personality of objects we rarely equate with ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Author and musician Dave Bidini is single-handedly creating his own genre of sports book: the North-American-sport-in-a-strange-land category. In his last book, Tropic of Hockey, Bidini looked at how Canada’s national pastime is played in unusual ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
In a rare instance of form following function in the book world, Exact Fare Only 2 seems designed for the express purpose of being read on the subway, streetcar, or bus. Editor Ian Cockfield has ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
If there are any kinds of hazards, mishaps, prickly encounters, or bizarre turns of event that James Bartleman did not encounter during his 35-year career in Canada’s foreign service, it’s difficult to imagine what they ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
In his foreword to David Nunuk’s Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia ($49.95 cloth 1-55017-273-5, 122 pp., Harbour Publishing), editor Dave Jones describes the two traditional methods of photographing the province’s bountiful scenery. The first ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction