Kids’ Books

Meeting Death: In Hospital, Hospice, and at Home

With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Mallory and the Power Boy

By Pete Marlowe, Cindy Revell, illus.

Pete Marlowe’s new picture book tells the fanciful tale of what happens when the power goes out one night at a little girl’s home. Soon after her parents tuck her into bed for the night, ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Didi and Daddy on the Promenade

By Marilyn Singer, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Didi is a hyperkinetic toddler with a blonde ponytail, round tummy, and an infectious enthusiasm for her Sunday morning walks with her Dad (no Mom in evidence) on Brooklyn’s riverside Promenade. Marie-Louise Gay’s breezy illustrations ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Strength of Materials

By Rhea Tregebov

Here is a keen observer, charting day-to-day experience in poems of loss and quiet celebration. A series of elegies, The Strength of Materials reflects Rhea Tregebov’s understanding of the human passage through time. Her resilient ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Hamburger Valley, California

By David McGimpsey

The philosophy behind the by-now-familiar Gen X posture is that the only way to protect yourself from cliché and pretension is to refer frequently to the silliest pop-culture material you can get your mittens on. ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

The Predicament of or

By Shani Mootoo

As the title suggests, Vancouver writer Shani Mootoo’s first collection of poetry catalogues the many “in-betweens” formed by a world of either/or choices and definitions. As in her award-winning novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, Mootoo ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Green Grit: The Story of the Saskatchewan Roughriders

By Graham Kelly

If it’s true that losers’ tales make for the best sports stories, Green Grit, Graham Kelly’s history of the floundering fortunes of the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, ought to have provided readers with a very dramatic ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Northern Wild: Best Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing

By David R. Boyd, ed.

It is somewhat curious that Canada, a country very much aware of its natural heritage and with an abundance of nature writing (both in periodicals and books), lacks significant, contemporary anthologies of nature writing. Despite ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Mystery of Ireland’s Eye

By Shane Peacock

When Dylan is 11, he is seized by an unexplained passion to accompany his parents on a sea kayaking trip to Ireland’s Eye, an abandoned island in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Over the next year, Dylan ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Nordlings

By Kathleen McDonnell

In The Nordlings, 15-year-old Peggy finds herself thrust out of her unhappy everyday life and into Notherland, the fantasy world she created as a child. The soul-stealing Nobodaddy now threatens Notherland’s existence, and it’s up ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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Meeting Death: In Hospital, Hospice, and at Home

Mallory and the Power Boy

Didi and Daddy on the Promenade

The Strength of Materials

Hamburger Valley, California

The Predicament of or

Green Grit: The Story of the Saskatchewan Roughriders

Northern Wild: Best Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing

The Mystery of Ireland’s Eye

The Nordlings

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