Children and YA Non-fiction

Rick Mercer Report: The Book

Comedian Rick Mercer has won more than 30 Gemini awards and received numerous government honours for lampooning Canadian politics and its uninspiring players. Rick Mercer Report: The Book collects dozens of his hugely popular “rants,” ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill

By Pino Posteraro

Chef Pino Posteraro hails originally from Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot. He has cooked in Toronto, Singapore, and throughout Italy. In 1999, he opened his Vancouver restaurant, Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill, recognized since then as ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

By Tim Bowling

Readers picking up this book should be forewarned by its title: this is nostalgia with an edge. Novelist and award-winning poet Tim Bowling grew up in the 1960s in Ladner, on the banks of the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Once upon an Elephant

By Ashok Mathur

The title brings to mind a fairy tale, but the author is being unnecessarily modest, as if trying to cram a mighty, incandescent genie into a very ordinary bottle. Once Upon an Elephant is certainly ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Blue Hippopotamus

By Phoebe Gilman; Joanne Fitzgerald, illus.

Scholastic’s North Winds Press imprint is publishing a pleasant new picture book called The Blue Hippopotamus, the last book written by the late, beloved Canadian author-illustrator Phoebe Gilman (Jillian Jiggs). Never a fan of cross-species ... Read More »

October 1, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezsö Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

By Anna Porter

A Hungarian Jew, Rezsö Kasztner spent most of the Second World War trying to prevent his neighbours from being deported to concentration camps. He was successful in his endeavours because he appealed to the basest ... Read More »

September 24, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Out Came the Sun: A Day in Nursery Rhymes

By Heather Collins

Extending her line of illustrated nursery rhymes, award-winner Heather Collins delivers Out Came the Sun, an anthology of children’s verse both familiar and obscure brought to life by softly hued watercolour depictions of a family ... Read More »

August 7, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ Becca at Sea

By Deirdre Baker

Who knew that Deirdre Baker (co-author of A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books and the forthcoming guide to children’s fantasy Follow That Broomstick) could write such terrific fiction? In Baker’s first novel, young Becca wonders ... Read More »

August 7, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose

By Marq de Villiers

The Bluenose is a Canadian icon, the symbol of an age when schooners ruled the waves and were depended upon by many a Maritime family. In his latest book, Governor General’s Award winner Marq de ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Where People Feast: An Indigenous People’s Cookbook

By Annie Watts, Dolly Watts

Dolly and Annie Watts – mother and daughter, respectively – are descended from chiefs of B.C.’s Gitk’san First Nation. From 1995 until earlier this year, they ran one of only two restaurants of its kind ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

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