Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women

By Nancy Wachowich,Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak and Sandra Pikujak Katsak

Saqiyuq is the Inuktitut word for a strong wind that suddenly shifts direction. Inuit life has also undergone a sudden shift in the last four decades, from nomadic subsistence hunting to permanent settlement in communities. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

Spider’s Web

By Sharon Stewart

Don Tapscott (Growing Up Digital) suggests that use of the Internet is changing the way children actually think. Mary Beaty, frequent contributor to these pages, makes a convincing case that the Internet is a sort ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Racing Worm Brothers

By Gary Barwin, Kitty Macaulay, illus.

Aaron is allergic to every pet except goldfish. But he doesn’t want a goldfish – he wants something he can pat. His brother Ryan suggests they find some worms to keep as pets. Before long, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Prairie Fire!

By Bill Freeman

Prairie Fire! tells how the Bains family, homesteading in Manitoba in the 1870s, find themselves in the middle of a dispute between other settlers and the Métis who roam the land – a dispute that ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Snake Dreamer

By Priscilla Galloway

Priscilla Galloway’s Snake Dreamer is faithfully evoked in cover artist Janet Wooley’s collage of beautiful and monstrous faces, crumbling temples, barren seashores, and sinuous serpents against a wash of intense Mediterranean blue. The story begins ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Greater than Angels

By Carol Matas

It is the early 1940s, in Vichy France, and a number of Jewish teenagers, having lost nearly everything of their former lives and beliefs, are sitting on the porch of a Red Cross shelter and ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Rose by Night

By Mireille Levert

Little Rose Redberry’s bedtime routine involves a drink, which leads to a sudden wakeup later when she needs to “pee so bad.” Easier said than done. Rose’s boisterous, colourful bedroom is fraught with danger. A ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Catmagic

By Loris Lesynski

When an aging witch begins to run out of spells, she needs a congenial place to hang up her broomstick. So when Arabelle notices an opening in the witches’ retirement home, she consults her cat ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Creatures: An Alphabet for Adults and Worldly Children

By Frank Newfeld

Creatures is a beautifully produced, full-colour alphabet book full of surprises. It’s not the sort of book that teaches upper and lower case letters. Rather, it’s a guessing game – you search the elegant wordless ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Uncivilizing

By Caroline Davidson et al.,Jennifer Footman, ed.

In the editor’s introduction, Jennifer Footman makes a distinction between Uncivilizing and other contemporary poetry anthologies that herald the arrival of “new and exciting” writers (usually poets under 30 or those not-yet-known). In contrast, Footman ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

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Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women

Spider’s Web

The Racing Worm Brothers

Prairie Fire!

Snake Dreamer

★ Greater than Angels

Rose by Night

Catmagic

Creatures: An Alphabet for Adults and Worldly Children

Uncivilizing

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