★ Danger in Dinosaur Valley, Screech Owls Series

The 10th title in Roy MacGregor’s Screech Owls series finds the adventurous team of young hockey stars in the Badlands of Alberta for a winter tournament. A warm chinook has made the weather in Drumheller ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Flags

By Maxine Trottier, Paul Morin, illus.

Set on the West Coast during the Second World War, this exquisitely sad and beautiful book tells of the friendship between Mary, a prairie girl visiting her grandmother for the summer, and Mr. Hiroshi, the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Beowulf

By Welwyn Wilton Katz, Laszlo Gal, illus.

If your only experience of Beowulf has been a brief excerpt at the beginning of a survey course in English literature, then you may have given (as I did) short shrift to this West Saxon ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Rain, Rain

By Maryann Kovalski

Wouldn’t we all like a magic charm to drive away the rain when it arrives on precisely the wrong day? Maryann Kovalski, a well-known Canadian author/illustrator, uses the old folk rhyme “Rain, rain, go away” ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star

By Edward Willett

The hero of Regina author Edward Willett’s third young adult fantasy novel is Kit, a 15-year-old street-smart musician in Fistfight City on the planet Murdoch IV. He speaks hip, futuristic slang and survives by playing ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Secret of Gabi’s Dresser

By Kathy Kacer

This is a reader-friendly, simply told story about a Jewish girl during the Second World War. Presented in 15 chapters, the book draws on the real-life experience of author Kathy Kacer’s mother to tell about ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Eye on Canada: Alberta

By Harry Beckett

The first five titles in the Eye on Canada series are an effective reminder of just how much information a well-planned and carefully organized 32-page book can present. Harry Beckett, the series’ author, is a ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Eye on Canada: Manitoba

By Harry Beckett

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Eye on Canada: Newfoundland & Labrador

By Harry Beckett

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Who Wants Rocks?

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Langer Krykorka, illus.

Michael Kusugak successfully takes a new direction in his seventh picture book collaboration with illustrator Vladyana Langer Krykorka. In their first six books, this award-winning team focused on eastern Arctic stories. This one moves to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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