Children and YA Non-fiction

The Clay Ladies

In Toronto writer Michael Bedard’s latest picture book, a grandmother tells her grandson about meeting Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, the “Clay Ladies” of the title. Loring and Wyle were artists – sculptors who lived ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ Boy of the Deeps

By Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace’s latest picture book is a tribute to the men who go underground, earning their living as coal miners. It is also a reminder of a time, not so long ago, when children left ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Inuksuk Book

By Mary Wallace

The Inuksuk Book is a brief but fascinating description of various Arctic inuksuit (the plural of inuksuk) and the roles these stone landmarks have played for centuries. The building blocks of a communication system, inuksuit ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Earthlings Inside and Out: A Space Alien Studies the Human Body

By Valerie Wyatt, Dusan Petricic, illus.

The concept for Earthlings is inventive and irresistible: an alien named Danoid accidentally lands on earth where he encounters a novel and intriguing life form – human beings. With permission from his commander, he promises ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

By Sabrina Ward Harrison

If Nick Bantock and Ralph Steadman were teenaged girls who kept scrapbook diaries, Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself would be the result. California-based photographer Sabrina Ward Harrison pours the world of adolescent angst ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Graveyard Girl (stories)

By Wendy A. Lewis

Put your ear to the ground. Hear a low rumble? The new children’s writers are afoot. All across the country they are taking courses, forming writers’ groups, joining organizations, turning up at blue pencil cafés. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Waiting to Dive

By Karen Rivers

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Rocket Science

By Julia Gaunce

In her first novel, Toronto writer Julia Gaunce leaps nimbly from idea to turn of phrase, using subtle wordplay to delineate her quirky characters’ quirky world. To say that Rocket Science tells the story of ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Ahtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle for Survival 1816-1896

By Deanna Christensen

Ahtahkakoop is an ambitious book that presents, in minute detail, the life story of Cree chief Ahtahkakoop and, by extension, the culture and history of his people and their relocation to a reserve at Sandy ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Going Some Place: Creative Non-fiction Across Canada

By Lynne Van Luven,ed.

In her introduction to Going Some Place, editor Lynne Van Luven acknowledges that creative non-fiction is a “hybrid genre,” difficult to clearly define and often seen as fancy travel reportage or postmodern personal essay writing. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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