Children and YA Non-fiction

1999 Canadian Internet Handbook: Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Enhance Your Internet Activities

Remember the pioneering days of the Internet? Before long we were all going to be shopping online, downloading movies, and getting all our information from the World Wide Web.Well, the initial hype hasn’t quite materialized, ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

The Friendly Dictatorship

By Jeffrey Simpson

Jeffrey Simpson, the national affairs columnist for the Globe and Mail, is an oddity amongst Canadian journalists. The author of several books on national politics, he also closely studies the latest academic literature. The Friendly ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Man Who Walked the Earth

By Ian Wallace

Well-known author and illustrator Ian Wallace has crafted another fine new book, a contemporary folk tale set on the Prairies in the 1930s. The story’s narrator, André, has been setting an extra plate at supper ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Wright Brothers: A Flying Start

By Elizabeth MacLeod, Barbara Spurll, illus.

Author Elizabeth MacLeod lifted the Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History series off the ground with books about Alexander Graham Bell and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Now she turns her well-seasoned pen to the ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Electronic Day Trading 101

By Sunny J. Harris

Legend has it that one day in 1929 J.P. Morgan, the wealthy U.S. financier, received a stock tip from a shoeshine boy. It’s said that Morgan promptly sold his entire portfolio, and avoided the stock ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

I See . . . My Mom / I See . . . My Dad

By Pierre Pratt

This trio of Annick Press books for the very young invites lively interaction between parent and child, talking about the pictures and relating them to the child’s own experience. Pierre Pratt, who has won many ... Read More »

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

I See . . . My Sister / I See . . . My Cat

By Pierre Pratt

April 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Between the Stillness and the Grove

By Erika de Vasconcelos

Erika de Vasconcelos’s second novel is more ambitious in scope than her acclaimed debut. Where My Darling Dead Ones concerned itself with the personal histories of a family of women, Between the Stillness and the ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Spy in the Alley (a Dinah Galloway Mystery)

By Melanie Jackson

Kudos to Vancouver writer and editor Melanie Jackson for her novel The Spy in the Alley, the first of a series featuring a saucy 11-year-old detective/songbird named Dinah Galloway. With writing as delicious as the ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

How Baseball Works

By Keltie Thomas, Greg Hall, illus.

With spring here and the thoughts of young sports fans turning to baseball, Toronto writer Keltie Thomas and illustrator Greg Hall (creators of How Hockey Works) move from the ice to the diamond with How ... Read More »