Hubcaps and Puppies

When her dog dies, Nikki, the 13-year-old narrator of this first-person novel, feels she’ll never want another. Her mother, however, while shopping for used hubcaps, finds a miserable puppy and brings him home as a ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Parvana’s Journey

By Deborah Ellis

One of the most interesting things about Deborah Ellis’s new novel, Parvana’s Journey, is its absence of human antagonists. A sequel to her hugely successful The Breadwinner (which has sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide), ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Jo’s Triumph

By Nikki Tate

Jo’s Triumph, Nikki Tate’s 10th novel, is an adventurous yarn in the spirit of Mary Downing Hahn’s The Gentleman Outlaw and Me-Eli. Set in Utah in the late 1850s, the novel charts the daring escapades ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

How the Blessed Live

By Susannah M. Smith

How the Blessed Live considers a modern family while mirroring mythic relationships that muddle magic and the real world. Susannah Smith opens this first novel with quotes from the myth of Isis and Osiris, and ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Tempting Faith Dinapoli

By Lisa Gabriele

The opening chapters of Tempting Faith DiNapoli brim with bodily fluids – not surprising, considering that four of the main characters, Matty, Faith, Hope, and Charlie, are all under the age of four. Those fluids ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Private View

By Jean McNeil

Alex, a disillusioned former artist, and Conrad, a manic mid-career artist, are flatmates and sometime lovers in London’s northeast end in transplanted Canadian novelist Jean McNeil’s Private View. It is a skillfully evoked, somewhat sordid ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Baby Elephant

By Aubrey Lang, Wayne Lynch, illus.

With the arrival of spring come three new picture books featuring baby animals. Baby Elephant. and Baby Lion are the latest additions to the Nature Babies Series by husband-and-wife team Aubrey Lang and Wayne Lynch. ... Read More »

January 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Baby Lion

By Aubrey Lang, Wayne Lynch, illus.

January 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Wild Babies

By Margriet Ruurs, Andrew Kiss, illus.

January 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

City Signs

By Zoran Milich

Although this book’s photos were taken in cities, preschoolers from communities of all sizes will recognize and relate to the objects and concepts portrayed. Thirty colourful camera shots illustrate the way we use letters, symbols, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Hubcaps and Puppies

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How the Blessed Live

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Private View

Baby Elephant

Baby Lion

Wild Babies

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