Children and YA Non-fiction

A Short History of Indians in Canada

In his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures – published as the impressive The Truth About Stories – writer and academic Thomas King outlined a poetics of native narrative. It was an expansive perspective, incorporating both the ... Read More »

September 6, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Storm Lion of Penzance

By Troon Harrison; Mark Foreman, illus.

After his father dies, Thomas moves with his mother from the rural interior of England to Cornwall’s stormy coast. There he learns to deal with the sea’s frightening power and to accept the changes that ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Picturescape

By Elisa Gutiérrez

A picture book without words leaves space for the imagination, drawing readers in by soliciting their own narratives. Picturescape shows the adventures of a A schoolboy who gets drawn, literally, into the paintings he sees ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Camilla Chameleon

By Colleen Sydor; Pascale Constantin, illus.

Camilla McNilly disappears every Saturday at suppertime when it’s liver and onions night in the McNilly household. Her schoolmates envy her unsurpassed hide-and-seek skills and how Camilla can read a comic book in class with ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Mixed Beasts

By Kenyon Cox; Wallace Edwards, illus.

Zoologist Julius Duckworth O’Hare presents, in this delicious volume, an illustrated field guide to some of the most bizarre creatures on the globe. Here we meet fantastic beasts such as the Octopussycat, whose tentacles can ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach

By Barbara Nickel

Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins is the link in this absorbing novel, in which music reaches across the centuries to connect two girls – a modern 12-year-old recently transplanted to Saskatchewan and the daughter of ... Read More »

August 22, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Refrigerator Memory

By Shannon Bramer

Toronto-based Shannon Bramer’s third book is a challenge to the easy assumptions we often make about what topics are appropriate subject matter for poetry. Many of Bramer’s poems have a mixture of political and personal ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity

By Cecil Foster

Exploring the dynamics of racism in Canada is a tricky proposition, for discrimination in this self-professed tolerant society is often expressed in a more subtle, multilayered manner than in America. Author and professor Cecil Foster ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Great Dominion: Winston Churchill in Canada 1900-1954

By David Dilks

For the Churchillophile who has everything comes British historian David Dilks’s The Great Dominion. Between 1900 and 1954 the great imperialist and war leader visited Canada nine times (eight, if one excludes a visit to ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven

By Linda Johns

Artist and author Linda Johns – known as the “Bird Lady of Nova Scotia” – checks in with her sixth ornithological opus, Birds of a Feather. The book is filled with dozens of poignant stories ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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