Dracula

By Bram Stoker,retold by Tim Wynne-Jones, Laszlo Gál, illus.

Tim Wynne-Jones seems to have a golden touch when it comes to books for young people. His very first book, Zoom, was a huge Canadian and international success with its combination of Wynne-Jones’s own bizarre ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Auld Lang Syne

By Joanne Findon, Ted Nasmith, illus.

Auld Lang Syne, Joanne Findon’s second picture book (following The Dream of Aengus), is a gentle account of episodes in the life of poet Robert Burns, highlighting his adaptation of the traditional Scottish song sung ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Come to the Fair

By Janet Lunn, Gilles Pelletier, illus.

A day at a country harvest fair for the Martin family provides the structure for Janet Lunn’s latest picture book. Lunn lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario; illustrator Gilles Pelletier in Ormstown, Quebec. Both know ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

There’s a Mouse in My House!

By Sheree Fitch, Leslie Elizabeth Watts, illus.

When a mouse gets into his house, a boy is faced with his hysterical mother demanding that he kill the creature. He’s standing with raised shoe, ready to deal the death blow, when the little ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Winter’s Tale

By Ian Wallace

Some books are like a ramble through the woods. There is a beginning, a middle, and a conclusion, but the plot is secondary to the atmosphere, and the means are more important than the end. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Biscuits in the Cupboard

By Barbara Nichol, Philippe Beha, illus.

Writer Barbara Nichol has dug down deep to her inner puppy and come up with a whole batch of dog poems in which the cadence and content are delightfully right.Dish and Bowldish and bowlDo I ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Fury: Inside the Life of Théoren Fleury

By Andrew Malcolm

When the Calgary Flames drafted Théoren Fleury in the eighth round of the National Hockey League’s 1987 entry draft, some scouts laughed out loud. Despite the impressive number of goals, assists, and penalty minutes he ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Legends of Autumn: The Glory Years of Canadian Football

By Denny Boyd and Brian Scrivener

As a typical red-blooded Canadian male who first became aware of professional sports in the late 1970s, I have always been puzzled by the perennial debate over whether or not the Canadian Football League is ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Crimes and Mercies

By James Bacque

Most reasonable people consider the Second World War to be the last morally unambiguous conflict. Nazis were the bad guys, the Allies were the good guys. Good triumphed over evil, right?Toronto writer James Bacque would ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Illustrated History of the Jewish People

By Nicholas de Lange, ed.

The history of the Jewish people stretches from before recorded time to our century, when everything is recorded. Nobody documented the slaughters that must have taken place when a bunch of disaffected slaves from Egypt ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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