Children and YA Non-fiction

Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

Michael Ignatieff requires little introduction to booksellers and librarians. He is the award-winning author of several non-fiction books including The Russian Album, which won the Governor General’s Award. This is the expatriate Canadian’s third book ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Notes from the Hyena’s Belly: Memories of My Ethiopian Boyhood

By Nega Mezlekia

The haunting essence of Nega Mezlekia’s powerful memoir is captured in his opening lines: “I was born in the year of the paradox, in the labyrinthine city of Jijiga. After a three-year absence, the rains ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Truth Is

By Mary Soderstrom

Lil of “What Lil Remembers,” one of 14 stories in Mary Soderstrom’s new collection, The Truth Is, is desperate to find comfort. With one child hospitalized and her husband away providing medical aid in disaster ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Vanilla and Other Stories

By Candas Jane Dorsey

When Candas Jane Dorsey says “vanilla” she’s not talking about ice cream. She’s referring to sex, of the plain and straightforward variety, and she’s pushing her readers to think about other, less predictable ways of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

My Mother and Me: A Memory Scrapbook for Kids

By Jane Drake and Ann Love, Scot Ritchie, illus.

Jane Drake and Ann Love, sisters and co-authors of several activity books for kids, have teamed up with Vancouver illustrator Scot Ritchie to produce a pair of memory scrapbooks, the third and fourth in a ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

My Father and Me: A Memory Scrapbook for Kids

By Jane Drake and Ann Love, Scot Ritchie, illus.

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Mad Notions: A True Tale of Murder and Mayhem

By John Lawrence Reynolds

It’s hard not to be appalled and disgusted at the bad guys – actually a gal and a guy – in Reynolds’ tale of sex, drugs, and murder in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

First Nations? Second Thoughts

By Tom Flanagan

Tom Flanagan, a professor of history at the University of Calgary, says First Nations? Second Thoughts “is bound to provoke some hostile reactions.” Declaring one’s martyrdom early – in this case, in the book’s acknowledgements ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Re-invention of Mass Culture

By Hal Niedzviecki

With contemporary culture in the hands of a dwindling number of media oligopolies, who’s to speak on the quixotic, overlooked, and largely misunderstood battle to create alternative voices? That would be underground culture maven Hal ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Critical Care: Canadian Nurses Speak for Change

By André Picard

Critical Care is a fascinating look at what nurses do today. In it André Picard interviews 45 nurses working in different specialties all across Canada, allowing them to report from the front lines of the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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