Dennis and the Fantastic Forest

This is the third title featuring Dennis, a green dragon who wears red sneakers and a baseball cap. Appalled when he discovers that his two disreputable brothers have managed to burn down a forest, Dennis ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

To Tell the Truth

By Patti Farmer, Stephen Taylor, illus.

Diogenes might have appreciated the honesty of young Benjamin Gates, but his companions clearly do not. It has not been a good week for Benjamin who speaks the unvarnished truth. Monday’s candour about the lack ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Rumpelstiltskin

By retold and illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay

Rumpelstiltskin, the scary and delicious tale by the Brothers Grimm about a menacing little man who can spin straw into gold, has been reinvented by writer and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay (The Three Little Pigs, Fat ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ The Parrot

By retold and illustrated by Laszlo and Raffaella Gal

The Parrot is a retelling of an Italian folktale, adapted and gorgeously illustrated by the renowned Canadian illustrator Laszlo Gal and his daughter Raffaella. The Gals respond to the structure of the story – a ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

High Cuisine: The Cannabis Cookbook

By Barbara Lamb

Rumour has it that food becomes more enjoyable when one is stoned on cannabis, the so-called “munchies.” Truth is, being high doesn’t affect food, just objectivity. A dry saltina is a dry saltina. That it ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Diamonds in the Rough

By Eric Walters

A number of years ago, one of the most interesting phenomena associated with Canadian young people’s literature was the number of women writing highly successful young adult fiction featuring male protagonists. Today, one of the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Good-Bye Marianne

By Irene N. Watts

One moment 11-year-old Marianne is heading off to school, stewing over an upcoming math test; the next she finds the school doors closed to her and ordinary life finished. For a Jewish child growing up ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Foolish Men of Agra and Other Tales of Mogul India

By Rina Singh, Farida Zaman, illus.

Akbar was a Mogul emperor of India who ruled between 1556 and 1605. The Moguls were Moslem, and Akbar is remembered, not only for consolidating the empire begun by his grandfather, but for winning acceptance ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Charlotte

By Janet Lunn, Brian Deines, illus.

As her many fans well know, Janet Lunn is an aficionado of both American and Canadian history. Her YA novels Shadow in Hawthorn Bay, The Root Cellar, and The Hollow Tree attest to her historicity ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Vital Signs: New Women Writers in Canada

By Diane Schoemperlen,ed.

Short fiction – recently mourned as something no one was reading much any more – appears to be undergoing a renaissance among Canadian writers, and many of the newest and smartest practitioners of these compressed ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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