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Swastika

By Michael Slade

Swastika, Michael Slade’s new novel, opens at the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. Hitler is losing his mind, fantasizing that the Nazis can still snatch victory from the already victorious Allied troops. ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Eagle

With The Eagle, B.C. writer Jack Whyte celebrates the completion of one of the most ambitious writing projects in Canadian fiction. The sequel to Clothar the Frank, The Eagle is the final volume in Whyte’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Building Canada: People and Projects That Shaped the Nation

By Jonathan Vance

If it is true, as Mackenzie King once said, that while some countries have too much history Canada has too much geography, then this book from University of Western Ontario history professor Jonathan Vance is ... Read More »

January 9, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Ben’s Big Dig

By Daniel Wakeman; Dirk van Stralen, illus.

You create a world. I’ll come visit. This is the tacit but essential bargain struck between reader and writer. In picture books this agreement is a group negotiation as reader and writer are joined by ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Crocodiles Say

By Robert Heidbreder; Rae Maté, illus.

You create a world. I’ll come visit. This is the tacit but essential bargain struck between reader and writer. In picture books this agreement is a group negotiation as reader and writer are joined by ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Rainbows in the Dark

By Jan Coates; Alice Priestley, illus.

In Rainbows in the Dark, a picture book by Wolfville, Nova Scotia, author Jan Coates, a young girl helps a blind musician find the perfect outfit for a concert, making new friends with both the ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Puppies on Board

By Sarah Harvey; Rose Cowles, illus.

When 11 puppies are born on board the Brady Lee, Mollie’s family boat, she finds each puppy uniquely charming, though her mother says one dog is enough. Mollie names the whole litter after characters in ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Bright Red Kisses

By Teresa Toten; Deirdre Betteridge, illus.

Teresa Toten’s first picture book, Bright Red Kisses, takes an ordinary occurrence in a young child’s life – mom going out for the evening – and turns it into something extraordinary and magical.A little girl ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Backyard Birds: An Introduction

By Robert Bateman with Ian Coutts; Robert Bateman, illus.

Stillness is a blessing too often absent from the lives of today’s children. After a moment of stillness to tune your attention outward, quiet the inner commotion, and drink in the world through wide-open senses, ... Read More »

November 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England

By Lita-Rose Betcherman

Lita-Rose Betcherman’s Court Lady and Country Wife brings to life two royal sisters with very little in common. Lucy and Dorothy Percy were bound simply by a father imprisoned in London’s infamous Tower during the ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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