Children and YA Non-fiction

Godblog

The publicity bumph for Toronto author Laurie Channer’s debut novel promises an edgy narrative in the vein of Douglas Coupland. It’s fine to aim high, but Godblog does not come remotely close to dethroning Canada’s ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth

By Robert Bateman, with Nancy Kovacs

The nearly 80-year-old artist Robert Bateman’s wildlife paintings are both photo-realistic and strikingly animated – imbuing their subjects with life, even when they are depicted doing nothing more than sunning themselves. The paintings are, therefore, ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Traitors’ Gate and Other Doorways to the Past

By Claire Eamer

Doors can be a metaphor for life, with the potential to link us directly with our past, present, and future. In Traitors’ Gate, Whitehorse author Claire Eamer explains this symbolism through the history of eight ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Zorgamazoo

By Robert Paul Weston; Victor Rivas, illus.

Told entirely in rhyming couplets, Toronto (by way of Vancouver and the U.K.) author Robert Paul Weston’s Zorgamazoo is a story rich in clever wordplay, unusual characters, and fantastic circumstances. Katrina Katrell is a clever ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories

By Deborah Ellis

Deborah Ellis is no stranger to the world of politically themed young adult fiction. Her latest book, Lunch with Lenin, is a powerful and skillfully executed collection of short stories about the impact of drugs, ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Good-Bye Marianne: A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany

By Irene N. Watts; Kathryn E. Shoemaker, illus.

Irene Watts’s Good-Bye Marianne is the story of an 11-year-old Jewish girl living in Berlin in the late 1930s. Over the course of several weeks, Marianne witnesses a murder, is barred from attending school, discovers ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

Robots: From Everyday to Out of This World

By The Editors of YES Mag

The editors of YES Mag are back with their fourth non-fiction title for young readers. And like their previous books – which include The International Space Station and Science Detectives – Robots is a lively ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Bees: Nature’s Little Wonders

By Candace Savage

The latest book by best-selling science writer Candace Savage (Prairie: A Natural History) celebrates bees, arguably the most beloved of all insect groups. We love them, stings and all, for many very good reasons. Bees ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists

By A.K. Prakash

It’s tempting to assume that Canadian women artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries were second-rate, given that the male-dominated canon of art history has portrayed them as such, simply by exclusion. Independent Spirit ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis

By Mike Barnes

Though “oblivion, and states approaching it” may, as Mike Barnes writes in the first of four lengthy essays that make up The Lily Pond, “slide away most determinedly from the very conscious act of writing,” ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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