Kids’ Books

Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality

If you watch TV or read the popular press, you probably know more about the rebellion against feminism than you do about feminism itself. Nay-sayers to the women’s movement have been popular since Camille Paglia, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ White Tie and Decorations: Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934–1936

By Peter Neary, ed.

The title of this selection of letters written from pre-Canadian Newfoundland by one of its British administrators and his wife constitutes a radical undervaluation. White Tie and Decorations is not, in fact, a book about ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Presumption of Culture: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in the Canadian Cultural Landscape

By Tom Henighan

When Sheila Finestone, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, suggested a couple of years ago that “Canada has no national culture,” her intention may have been to affirm Canada’s wide diversity of cultures and lack of ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brink

By Mark Kingwell

As we edge closer to the year 2000, there is one clear sign that the apocalypse is upon us: everyone’s writing about it.And I do mean everyone. It’s getting difficult to open a magazine or ... Read More »

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

Back on the Rez: Finding the Way Home

By Brian Maracle

In 1993, Brian Maracle, a Mohawk journalist in his mid-40s, abandoned his career in Ottawa and moved to the largely rural Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario. His family had left the reserve when he ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Butterflies and Bottlecaps

By Eliza Clark, Vladyana Krykorka, illus.

A little girl has butterflies instead of hair. She wants to be like all the other children, but her mother assures her she is special. One night, the child dreams that her butterflies fly away. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Nathaniel’s Violin

By Alison Lohans, Marlene Watson, illus.

The power of music to enrich and even transform human lives was the theme of two outstanding Canadian picture books – Robert Thomas Allen’s The Violin and Stéphane Poulin’s Benjamin and the Pillow Saga. As ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The End of the World

By John Leslie

Doomsday has a long history, almost as long as that of the human race whose extinction it continually foretells. In the early days of the species, when war, disease, and starvation crowded the horizon, the ... Read More »

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

★ Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools

By J.R. Miller

J.R. Miller is a highly regarded Saskatchewan historian, but he also has the makings of an outstanding coroner. In Shingwauk’s Vision, he has autopsied the barely cooled corpse of the native residential school system. With ... Read More »

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

Household Hints for the End of Time

By Ken Howe

In his first collection of poetry, Household Hints for the End of Time, Regina poet Ken Howe explores a wide range of subjects – from the inherent meaning of a refrigerator to the resonances and ... Read More »

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

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