Kids’ Books

I Came as a Stranger: The Underground Railroad

I Came as a Stranger celebrates Ontario’s role in the Underground Railroad. Writer Bryan Prince, winner of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for contributions to black history, tells what happened to escaping slaves who came ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Turn It Loose: The Scientist in Absolutely Everybody

By Diane Swanson, Warren Clark, illus.

With their latest collaboration, the B.C. author-illustrator team of Diane Swanson and Warren Clark (who also did Nibbling on Einstein’s Brain) have taken another step toward establishing themselves as top-notch creators of science books that ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Penelope and the Humongous Burp

By Sheri Radford, Christine Tripp, illus.

Vancouver-based writer Sheri Radford presents a cautionary yet gleeful tale of the perils of too much soda pop. Penelope quenches her thirst with glass after glass of grape soda, despite repeated warnings from her mother. ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Perfect Man

By Troy Wilson, Dean Griffiths, illus.

Michael Maxwell McAllum loves superheroes, especially Perfect Man, “the greatest superhero of them all.” Michael has Perfect Man video games, Perfect Man cereal, and even his own Perfect Man web site. Then, one day, Perfect ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Sidewalk Rescue

By Hazel Hutchins, Ruth Ohi, illus.

Hazel Hutchins’ and Ruth Ohi’s new picture book – the 16th they’ve done together – is a lively fantasy about a girl named Josie who disappears into the world of her sidewalk chalk drawings. We ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Going to the Fair

By Sheryl McFarlane, Sheena Lott, illus.

Going to the Fair is a straightforward account of the day four children spend at a country fair. They exhibit a calf, a rooster, and a pumpkin, all lovingly raised by hand. They look at ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Doggerel

By Sheila Dalton, Kim LaFave, illus.

In humorous verse, Sheila Dalton’s new book celebrates the diversity of dogs – the shaggy and the waggy, the burly and the curly, the scrawny and the yawny. Although they don’t sparkle with wit, the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating

By Steve Milton

Even before Harding hit Kerrigan, thousands of Canadians were glued to sets and frozen to bleachers, watching Stojko, Chouinard, and Philippe Candeloro, above, spinning around the ice all over the world. And given the relatively ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ What God Allows: The Crisis of Faith and Conscience in One Catholic Church

By Ivor Shapiro

When Pope John Paul II released his encyclical Vertitatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) in the fall of 1993, it gave members of the Roman Catholic Church much to ponder. It states that certain acts, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

All I Thought About Was Baseball: Writings on a Canadian Pastime

By William Humber and John St. James, eds.

In All I Thought About Was Baseball, editors William Humber and John St. James make reference to the intimate relationship this country has with “the game.” Their insight that this connection stems from the “longing ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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