Kids’ Books

Little Miss Muffet

By Trad. nursery rhymes, Heather Collins, illus.

These four cheery titles are the newest in a series of nursery rhyme board books by veteran Toronto illustrator Heather Collins. Each traditional rhyme is given its own little book of sturdily bound boards, which ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pat-a-cake

By Trad. nursery rhymes, Heather Collins, illus.

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Who Owns Kelly Paddik?

By Beth Goobie

Who Owns Kelly Paddik? is Saskatoon author Beth Goobie’s third contribution to the Orca Soundings teen fiction series. Aimed at reluctant readers, the series offers four new books this season, all graded according to reading ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Muinji’j Becomes a Man

By Saqamaw Mi’sel Joe, Clara Dunn, illus.

A trip for supplies becomes an unexpected challenge of strength and courage in this novel for middle readers. This simple and gentle story by first-time author Mi’sel Joe, chief of the only recognized band reserve ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Survivors! True Death-defying Escapes

By Larry Verstraete

The most important part of this book’s title is not the word “survivors,” it’s the exclamation point. This is a book written in exclamation points, and while most of these accounts of survival are indeed ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Deep End Gang

By Peggy Dymond Leavey

This new mystery by Peggy Dymond Leavey, her fifth, has a crisp, lively plot and just enough quirkiness to give the story an edge. For example, the name of this ad-hoc gang – three twelvish ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Marigold’s Wings

By Vlasta van Kampen

Vlasta van Kampen’s latest picture book recounts the adventures of a monarch butterfly as she embarks on her species’ annual migration to Mexico. For all her caterpillar life, Marigold has listened with impatient longing to ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Several Lives of Orphan Jack

By Sarah Ellis, Bruno St-Aubin, illus.

Sarah Ellis, the celebrated Vancouver author with X-ray insight into her child protagonists’ inner lives, turns her talents to something completely different: an ebullient bildungsroman that skips along with the sparkling wordplay of a junior ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Secret Ingredients: The Brave New World of Industrial Farming

By Stuart Laidlaw

Stuart Laidlaw, a member of The Toronto Star’s editorial board who has led the paper’s coverage of Canadian farm and agricultural issues, has written a compassionate and harrowing account of the burgeoning industrialization of Canadian ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

A Grain of Sand

By P.K. Page, Vladyana L. Krykorka, illus.

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour.” These mysterious, beautiful words of William Blake have inspired ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Little Miss Muffet

Pat-a-cake

Who Owns Kelly Paddik?

Muinji’j Becomes a Man

Survivors! True Death-defying Escapes

The Deep End Gang

Marigold’s Wings

The Several Lives of Orphan Jack

Secret Ingredients: The Brave New World of Industrial Farming

A Grain of Sand

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