Kids’ Books

Eenie Meenie Manitoba: Playful Poems and Rollicking Rhymes

By Robert Heidbreder, Scot Ritchie, illus.

This book contains some reworked traditional rhymes and some original poems. “To Be or Not to Be” is an updated version of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor” with modern occupations added and all possible offensive stereotypes ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Roses for Gita

By Rachna Gilmore, Alice Priestley, illus.

This is Rachna Gilmore’s second story about Gita. In Lights for Gita this young immigrant from India received a cold welcome to Canada when a sleet storm all but ruined her Divali, the Hindu festival ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

How Animals Communicate (crabapple Series)

By Bobbie Kalman

Both these new additions to Crabtree’s Crabapple series will appeal to young animal lovers – and their teachers and parents. These books feature an attractive design, large readable typeface, and many colour photographs. How Animals ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How a Plant Grows (crabapple Series)

By Bobbie Kalman

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Beetle Bedlam

By Vlasta van Kampen

Vlasta van Kampen thanks scientists and technicians at Agriculture Canada’s Centre for Land and Biological Resources at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa for their interest and continuous flow of information over the three years ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

If You Could Wear My Sneakers!

By Sheree Fitch, Darcia Labrosse, illus.

Award-winning performance poet Sheree Fitch (author of There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen and Mable Murple) has teamed with illustrator Darcia Labrosse to produce a book of poems about children’s rights. Peter Gzowski provides the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis

By Lance Woolaver

The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis is a heart-warming companion to a new exhibit, scheduled to tour nationally, illustrating the life and art work of Nova Scotia’s most loved native painter. Everything about Maud Lewis ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch

By Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor with Peter Schjeldahl

It’s enough to make you scream, the way some curators can’t see the forest for the trees, or the message for the medium. The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch is no exception. In the life ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Greed: Investment Fraud in Canada and Around the Globe

By Deborah Thompson

In this review of well-known fraud cases from the last two decades, Toronto business writer Deborah Thompson covers a few boiler rooms from which assets were peddled to the unwary; a Winnipeg grain brokerage scandal; ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Butterfly Customer: Capturing the Loyalty of Today’s Elusive Consumer

By Susan M. O’Dell and Joan A. Pajunen

Toronto retail consultants Joan Pajunen and Susan O’Dell believe that customers’ loyalty to retailers has vanished. The authors identify both increased consumer awareness and diminished management ability for this trend. The Butterfly Customer deals with the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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