Children and YA Non-fiction

Vital Signs: New Women Writers in Canada

Short fiction – recently mourned as something no one was reading much any more – appears to be undergoing a renaissance among Canadian writers, and many of the newest and smartest practitioners of these compressed ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War, Rev. Ed.

By W.A.B. Douglas and Brereton Greenhous

If all Gaul, as the Romans had it, was divided in three parts, then all military history is divided into five. There are what we might call the serious studies, the academics’ and the theorists’ ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Salute! Canada’s Most Distinguished Military Leaders from Tecumseh to Dextraze

By Arthur Bishop

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Mealworms: Raise Them, Watch Them, See Them Change

By Adrienne Mason, Angela Vaculik, illus.

It is a rare primary or junior classroom that does not study insects at some time or other, often with particular emphasis on the life cycle. Critters caught in the playground seldom oblige by revealing ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Horses Forever

By Lawrence Scanlan

Lawrence Scanlan identifies the affinity that frequently develops between horses and humans as “horse fever,” a condition that has no known cure. He notes that young people, particularly girls approaching adolescence, have been known to ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Just Desserts

By Marilyn Linton, Barbara Reid, illus.

When rainy days or extended school holidays strike, parental survival packages have been known to be a trifle skimpy. There’s the video machine and the Nintendo game, both eventually guaranteed to numb the spirit and ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

My Sahara Adventure: 52 Days by Camel

By Lawrie Raskin with Debora Pearson

Lawrie Raskin’s dream of visiting the Sahara began in childhood with a comic of Donald Duck riding a camel, and was nurtured by teenage infatuation with the film Lawrence of Arabia. He eventually made it ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Building a Solitaire Game and a Peg Board, Building Together Series, Vol.1

By Ken Ainsworth, Tina Holdcroft, illus., Rodrigo Moreno, photog.

The old adage “Never judge a book by its cover” certainly does not apply to this series. Both the title of this series, “Building Together,” and the cover photo of author Ken Ainsworth with his ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The War to End All Wars

By Morley Torgov

Eliezer Pinsky, the protagonist of Morley Torgov’s new novel, The War to End All Wars, doesn’t figure to be long for the world when we first meet him. A Russian Jew, he’s a reluctant First ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Photoshop 5 for Windows for Dummies

By Deke McClelland

Sometime around 1400, Italian painters discovered linear perspective. This literally changed the way people saw, allowing the artist to blur the distinction between a surface plane and three-dimensional space. Suddenly the world could be represented ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

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