Children and YA Non-fiction

Python Play and Other Recipes for Fun

By Robert Heidbreder, Karen Patkau, illus.

This delightful and lively book of poems for younger children is a pleasure to read aloud. Vancouver author, teacher, and Greek and Latin scholar Robert Heidbreder, who wrote the collections of poems Don’t Eat Spiders ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Figure Skating Book: A Young Person’s Guide to Figure Skating

By Debbi Wilkes

Debbi Wilkes is familiar to any Canadian who watches figure skating on TV, as she is not only a former Olympic medal-winner herself but a regular commentator on televised skating competitions and host of the ... Read More »

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

★ Wow Canada! Exploring This Land from Coast to Coast to Coast

By Vivien Bowers, Dan Hobbs and Dianne Eastman, illus.

Wow Canada! is a scrapbook cum journal of a car trip across Canada written from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy named Guy. As the narrator, Guy describes places, flora, fauna, and experiences with a ... Read More »

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

Sophie Sea to Sea

By Norma Charles

Sophie is sad that her family has to move from their Montreal neighbourhood all the way across Canada to their new B.C. home, but like her favourite comic book heroine, Star Girl, she’s ready for ... Read More »

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

Visions

By Eric Walters

Twins Rob and Mark aren’t thrilled about spending two weeks with their mother on King William Island in the Arctic as part of an expedition studying muskox. But the North casts its spell and draws ... Read More »

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

Stranger Things Have Happened

By Carmelita McGrath

There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Day the Women Went to Town: 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton

By Ronald Caplan, ed.

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

By Michael Ignatieff

In his new book on human rights, distinguished author and historian Michael Ignatieff grapples with profound issues of the human rights movement, skillfully mapping its controversies and ambiguities. Ignatieff probes the political morality of human ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Our Life with the Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story

By Roch Carrier,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Do we really need another book about Rocket Richard? Or Gordie Howe or Bobby Orr or Tim Horton for that matter? Do we need to be retold the same weathered story of another hockey great ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

On Kiddie Porn: Sexual Representation, Free Speech and the Robin Sharpe Case

By Stan Persky and John Dixon

“This pervert lives in the building.” This message accompanied a photo of Robin Sharpe that was put up in his Vancouver apartment complex after he was charged with possession of child pornography. The first chapter ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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