Kids’ Books

The Beothuk Saga

By Bernard Assiniwi ,Wayne Grady, trans.

In The Beothuk Saga, Cree author Bernard Assiniwi combines history, ethnology, and a multi-generational epic storyline to tell the story of Newfoundland’s now-extinct Beothuk people. In the Cree tradition, stories are not classified as “true” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Trade

By Fred Stenson

You’d never want to put the adjective “fair” in front of the kind of trade that Fred Stenson writes about in this absorbing historical novel. He’s concerned with the fur trade, in what is now ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

My Cross-country Checkup: Across Canada by Minivan, Through Space and Time

By Walter Stewart

Walter Stewart first travelled across the Trans-Canada Highway in 1964, for a series of stories in the Star Weekly. In My Cross-Country Checkup, Stewart and his wife, Joan – dryly referred to as “The Driver” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

100 Days in the Jungle

By Shawn Ohler and Vicki Hall

On Sept. 11 it will have been one year since seven Albertans and one American were kidnapped while working on an oil pipeline in Ecuador; they were held hostage for over three months. Edmonton journalists ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Flavours of Canada: A Celebration of the Finest Regional Foods

By Anita Stewart, Robert Wigington, photog.

A minor but long-lingering bookselling problem has finally been solved. The question of what to offer gift shoppers looking for attractive yet authoritative books on Canadian cuisine has long been met with helpless shrugs. But ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Man Who Lost Himself: The Terry Evanshen Story

By June Callwood

Man, interrupted: in July of 1988, the life of 44-year-old ex-CFL star Terry Evanshen took such an extraordinary turn that it would come to resemble an ancient myth, a legend of the gods’ rough intervention ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

By Witold Rybczynski

It started last year with a call from a New York Times editor with his eye on the millennium. Would Witold Rybczynski care to pen an essay celebrating the Best Tool of the last 1,000 ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Toes Are to Tickle

By Shen Roddie, Kady MacDonald Denton, illus.

Toes Are to Tickle is a sweet new picture book for babies and toddlers that follows the rhythm of the child’s day – from waking up and eating breakfast to saying goodnight. Shen Roddie’s text ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Little Toby and the Big Hair

By Eugenie Fernandes, Kim Fernandes, illus.

Toby wants the longest hair in the whole world, but by the time it reaches her knees it is already creating a lot of problems.Things get caught in it, babies yank on it, it flops ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Grizzly Bears (the Untamed World Series)

By Janice Parker

These two excellent new non-fiction books deserve a place in any school or public library. They are packed with useful information, text that’s both readable and entertaining, and colourful photographs to grab the attention of ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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