Children and YA Non-fiction

★ The Hollow Tree

Some months ago, writer Janet Lunn published an article about her distress at the trend toward turning Canadian historical sites into tawdry theme parks. In the article, Lunn is modest about her own reputation as ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Fury: Inside the Life of Théoren Fleury

By Andrew Malcolm

When the Calgary Flames drafted Théoren Fleury in the eighth round of the National Hockey League’s 1987 entry draft, some scouts laughed out loud. Despite the impressive number of goals, assists, and penalty minutes he ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Legends of Autumn: The Glory Years of Canadian Football

By Denny Boyd and Brian Scrivener

As a typical red-blooded Canadian male who first became aware of professional sports in the late 1970s, I have always been puzzled by the perennial debate over whether or not the Canadian Football League is ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Crimes and Mercies

By James Bacque

Most reasonable people consider the Second World War to be the last morally unambiguous conflict. Nazis were the bad guys, the Allies were the good guys. Good triumphed over evil, right?Toronto writer James Bacque would ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Illustrated History of the Jewish People

By Nicholas de Lange, ed.

The history of the Jewish people stretches from before recorded time to our century, when everything is recorded. Nobody documented the slaughters that must have taken place when a bunch of disaffected slaves from Egypt ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

And God Created the French

By Louis-Bernard Robitaille

This collection of very fine vignettes by Louis-Bernard Robitaille, Paris correspondent for the Montreal newspaper La Presse, captures much of what makes contemporary France so fascinating and so maddening. After 30 years of living in ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Reluctant Pornographer

By Bruce La Bruce

The Reluctant Pornographer is a star’s memoirs so there is not much time for self-analysis between descriptions of getting it on for the camera and facing a film festival question and answer session. Nonetheless, Toronto ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women

By Denise Chong, ed.

Non-fiction writer and now editor Denise Chong, likes short stories because: (a) she can “hold completely within [her] imagination from the first word to the last the characters around whom events swirl,” and (b) she ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Duff the Giant Killer (formac First Novels Series)

By Budge Wilson, Kim LaFave, illus.

The titles in Formac’s First Novels series feature established authors and illustrators writing for younger readers (hence the series name). With well-known writers such as Budge Wilson, Monica Hughes, and Ted Staunton, and illustrators such ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Dume’s Roar

By Tololwa M. Mollel, Kathy Blankley Roman, illus.

The forest creatures have gathered to choose a king. Kobe the tortoise thinks he’d be perfect for the job, but Dume – a lion with a fearsome roar – gets the majority vote. Dume proves ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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