Children and YA Non-fiction

Where Am I? the Story of Maps and Navigation

Where Am I? presents a general overview of the development of navigation and map-making from the earliest maps on bark to the Global Positioning System. The text is clear, concise, and readable, and the author ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

In the Wings

By Carole Corbeil

Robert Fulford noted a few months back that a lump of Toronto writers – Ondaatje, Michaels – place their narratives amid the concrete pylons and thick sumacs of the city’s ravines. Add Carole Corbeil. In ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

My Travels with a Corkscrew: Memoirs of a Wine Lover

By Tony Aspler

Ford Madox Ford began drinking wine seriously when he was eight; Colette when she was 11. Tony Aspler, Canada’s best known wine writer and educator, was bribed by his foster mother with grapes at age ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow: Guarding Your Assets in the Coming Bear Market

By Andrew Sarlos with Patricia Best

Andrew Sarlos, financier, friend of tycoons, and benefactor of his native Hungary, died in March this year, his final testament a book of gloomy prophecy. In it, he forecasts that the roaring stock markets of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Computer Crisis 2000

By W. Michael Fletcher

Doomsday is coming! Doomsday is coming!Sort of.Welcome to the Year 2000 Problem, also known in computer circles as Y2K, also known as the Millennium Bug, also known as the biggest single pain-in-the-butt that computer professionals ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Year 2000 Computing Crisis: A Millennium Date Conversion Plan

By Jerome T. Murray and Marilyn Murray

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Electric Gadgets and Gizmos: Battery-Powered Buildable Gadgets That Go!

By Alan Bartholomew, Lynn Bartholomew, illus.

For 10 years Alan and Lynn Bartholomew have been perfecting the electric gadgets they present in this book. Obviously they enjoy messing around with wires, batteries, and a host of tubes, bottles, bulbs, and motors, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Planets

By Cynthia Pratt Nicolson, Bill Slavin, illus.

Although the recently released Ontario Science and Technology curriculum mandates the study of the solar system in Grade 6, fascination with the topic begins much earlier. Planets are to space what dinosaurs are to time ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Why Do Cows Moo? and Other Questions

By Catherine Ripley, Scot Ritchie, illus.

Any parent or educator who has been beleaguered by the never-ending nature questions of a young child will appreciate having Why Do Cows Moo? as a handy resource, not only because it has many answers, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Animals Eat the Weirdest Things

By Diane Swanson, Terry Smith, illus.

So many animals, so many meals. How to organize hundreds of diners, from tiny insects to dinosaur giants, must have given science writer Diane Swanson pause. She’s done it by food groups of choice: cast-off ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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Where Am I? the Story of Maps and Navigation

In the Wings

My Travels with a Corkscrew: Memoirs of a Wine Lover

Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow: Guarding Your Assets in the Coming Bear Market

Computer Crisis 2000

The Year 2000 Computing Crisis: A Millennium Date Conversion Plan

Electric Gadgets and Gizmos: Battery-Powered Buildable Gadgets That Go!

The Planets

Why Do Cows Moo? and Other Questions

Animals Eat the Weirdest Things

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