Kids’ Books

Where You Came From

Anyone picking up Where You Came From expecting a scientifically solemn and medically correct account of the facts of life for pre-schoolers is in for a surprise. In this, a follow-up to Sara O’Leary and ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Sir Reginald’s Logbook

By Matt Hammill

Though its target readership probably won’t notice, older readers – as in 30-plus years of age – might find that the title character of author/illustrator Matt Hammill’s first book bears a striking resemblance to Uncle ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Bees: Nature’s Little Wonders

By Candace Savage

The latest book by best-selling science writer Candace Savage (Prairie: A Natural History) celebrates bees, arguably the most beloved of all insect groups. We love them, stings and all, for many very good reasons. Bees ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists

By A.K. Prakash

It’s tempting to assume that Canadian women artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries were second-rate, given that the male-dominated canon of art history has portrayed them as such, simply by exclusion. Independent Spirit ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis

By Mike Barnes

Though “oblivion, and states approaching it” may, as Mike Barnes writes in the first of four lengthy essays that make up The Lily Pond, “slide away most determinedly from the very conscious act of writing,” ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ Burma Chronicles

By Guy Delisle

Readers familiar with Guy Delisle’s previous travel memoirs, Shenzhen and Pyongyang, may get a jolt from the cover image of his latest. In it, Delisle’s high-foreheaded and low-shouldered avatar is slouching past a heavily fortified ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

A Hummingbird Dance

By Garry Ryan

On the first anniversary of the murder of First Nations teen Alex Starchild, a cowboy’s horse returns home to its ranch without its rider. It doesn’t take detectives Lane and Harper long to connect the ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Claudia

By Britt Holmstrom

For a novel that begins with a grisly stabbing and features three other murders, Britt Holmström’s Claudia is surprisingly upbeat. Indeed, the cactus flower on the cover is a fitting symbol of the book’s central ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Red Dog, Red Dog

By Patrick Lane

Welcome to the 2008 version of the Important Canadian Novel. Like the 2007 version – Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero – Red Dog, Red Dog announces itself with a flurry of portentous poetic language, often dealing with ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Animals at the EDGE: Saving the World’s Rarest Creatures

By Jonathan Baillie and Marilyn Baillie

The animal on the cover of Animals at the EDGE looks like something dreamed up by Disney – a mouse-like critter with button eyes, a bright pink nose, tiny perfect feet, and impossibly large ears. ... Read More »

October 6, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Where You Came From

Sir Reginald’s Logbook

Bees: Nature’s Little Wonders

Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists

The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis

★ Burma Chronicles

A Hummingbird Dance

Claudia

Red Dog, Red Dog

Animals at the EDGE: Saving the World’s Rarest Creatures

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