Children and YA Non-fiction

One Some Many

By Marthe Jocelyn, Tom Slaughter, illus.

There is not a whiff of underpants or cute-bunnykins anthropomorphism about One Some Many, the first picture-book collaboration between the husband-and-wife team of author-illustrator Marthe Jocelyn (Hannah’s Collections) and visual artist Tom Slaughter. Indeed, this ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

When They Are Up

By Maggee Spicer and Richard Thompson, Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus.

The newest collaboration between husband-and-wife team Thompson and Spicer is delightful. Their wacky twist on the nursery rhyme The Grand Old Duke of York comes with lyrics and music; that’s apt, since the music of ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues

By Dave Bidini

Author and musician Dave Bidini is single-handedly creating his own genre of sports book: the North-American-sport-in-a-strange-land category. In his last book, Tropic of Hockey, Bidini looked at how Canada’s national pastime is played in unusual ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Exact Fare Only 2

By Ian Cockfield

In a rare instance of form following function in the book world, Exact Fare Only 2 seems designed for the express purpose of being read on the subway, streetcar, or bus. Editor Ian Cockfield has ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

On Six Continents: A Life in Canada’s Foreign Service 1966-2002

By James K. Bartleman

If there are any kinds of hazards, mishaps, prickly encounters, or bizarre turns of event that James Bartleman did not encounter during his 35-year career in Canada’s foreign service, it’s difficult to imagine what they ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia

By David Nunuk

In his foreword to David Nunuk’s Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia ($49.95 cloth 1-55017-273-5, 122 pp., Harbour Publishing), editor Dave Jones describes the two traditional methods of photographing the province’s bountiful scenery. The first ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Skinny on Fat

By M. Sara Rosenthal

Prominent bioethicist and prolific author M. Sara Rosenthal promises to distill the overwhelming abundance of diet information in The Skinny on Fat. Rosenthal wants to get to the bottom of “low-fat culture” and put readers ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

A Richer Dust: Family, Memory and the Second World War

By Robert Calder

Given the vagaries of memory and historical record, there are bound to be gaps in any family history. For those with the resources and faculty, many of these gaps can be filled. Robert Calder, an ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Jo’s Triumph

By Nikki Tate

Jo’s Triumph, Nikki Tate’s 10th novel, is an adventurous yarn in the spirit of Mary Downing Hahn’s The Gentleman Outlaw and Me-Eli. Set in Utah in the late 1850s, the novel charts the daring escapades ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

How the Blessed Live

By Susannah M. Smith

How the Blessed Live considers a modern family while mirroring mythic relationships that muddle magic and the real world. Susannah Smith opens this first novel with quotes from the myth of Isis and Osiris, and ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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