Children and YA Non-fiction

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

Despite its unprepossessing title, Vancouverite Michael David Kwan’s memoir, spanning the mid-1930s to the late ’40s, is an engrossing book. The son of a young Swiss woman (who quickly disappears from his life) and a ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Eminent Canadians: Candid Tales of Then and Now

By John Fraser

A decade ago, I suggested to my agent that I should do a book called “Eminent Canadians,” a Lytton Strachey-like job on the rich and powerful. Deflate the pompous and savage the powerful, in other ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Sex Is Red

By Bill Gaston

In this age of short attention spans and quick fixes, the short story should be more popular than it is with readers. But short story collections seldom put a gleam in the eye of publishers ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Frederick Street: Living and Dying on Canada’s Love Canal

By Maude Barlow and Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May, head of the Sierra Club of Canada, and Maude Barlow, chair of the citizen’s lobby group The Council of Canadians, have written an informative and sometimes shocking account of government bungling in regulating, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Splitting up: Divorce, Culture, and the Search for a Real Life

By Larry Frolick

In a world of perpetual change the traditional concept of marriage – constancy, fidelity, familiarity – is an institution completely at odds with the times we live in.While we still crave the intimacy of stable ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Running Away to Sea: Around the World on a Tramp Freighter

By Douglas Fetherling

The only notion I ever had of running away from home was when (somewhere around the age of seven) I soberly considered fleeing home for the bakery at the end of my street. It’s an ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

★ The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus

By Charles Wilkins

The only notion I ever had of running away from home was when (somewhere around the age of seven) I soberly considered fleeing home for the bakery at the end of my street. It’s an ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The Rajah of Renfrew: The Life and Times of John E. Ducey, Edmonton’s Mr. Baseball

By Brent E. Ducey

There’s a Field of Dreams ambience about Brent Ducey’s book about a major Edmonton sports figure, but there, sadly, the resemblance ends.Ducey, a former newspaper reporter, attempts to bring together two parallel histories: a history ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Whispering in Shadows

By Jeannette Armstrong

Best known for the novel Slash and the poetry collection Breath Tracks, Okanagan writer Jeannette Armstrong combines genres in her new novel to bring readers into the world of Penny Jackson, a painter, activist, and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Just for Comfort

By Ralph Osborne

Just for Comfort is a Canadian counter-culture road movie set to the page: Goin’ Down the Road meets Thelma and Louise. First-time novelist Ralph Osborne has written a gentle, comic tale of addiction and violence ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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