Exile

Carlos Romero Estévez is hastily smuggled out of his country and flown to Vancouver to take up a university appointment as writer-in-exile. It is possible, however, to be a political refugee without being a hero, ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Unusual Heroes: Canada’s Prime Ministers and Fathers of Confederation

By Shane Peacock

Unusual Heroes, by Shane Peacock, brings the stories of Canada’s founding fathers and 20 prime ministers to life for a young adult audience, filling a gap in resources on this subject for that age range. ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

Pacific Tree Frogs

By Leslie Owen, George Juhasz, illus.

Children’s book editor Leslie Owen has chosen the life cycle of the tiny Pacific tree frog as the subject for her first book. The text begins in a storybook-like way, but after the first couple ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane

By Peter Busby, David Craig, illus.

On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their way into history after conducting the first successful controlled powered aircraft flight. Though the initial test flight that day lasted only 12 seconds, the implications ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

Summer of Suspense

By Kristin Butcher

What do holograms have to do with some robberies at a local aquarium? Not much, as it turns out, other than to provide an interesting sidebar in Victoria author Kristin Butcher’s mystery novel Summer of ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

Breaking Free: The Story of William Kurelek

By May Ebbitt Cutler, William Kurelek, illus.

The biographer’s job is to blaze a trail through the forest of a life, here following the stream, there climbing the rise, then lingering in the sunny clearing before hacking through a tangled thicket. In ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

Marie-claire: A Season of Sorrow

By Kathy Stinson

Penguin’s popular Our Canadian Girl series is made up of easy-to-read (perhaps too easy) dramatic adventure stories focusing on the life and times of spirited 10-year-old girls at key historical junctures. They’re aimed at stimulating ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

Hallelujah Handel

By Douglas Cowling, Jason Walker, illus.

The power of music to console and preserve is the underlying story of this new picture book based on the recording by Classical Kids of the same title. Darker in its subject matter than other ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Garbage Delight: Another Helping

By Dennis Lee, Maryann Kovalski, illus.

Twenty-five years after its first publication, Garbage Delight has been reissued with handsome new full-colour illustrations by Maryann Kovalski and 17 brand-smacking-new poems. Twenty-five of the original book’s poems, including the title one, remain. But ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Accidental Alphabet

By Dianna Bonder

Dianna Bonder, illustrator of A Pacific Alphabet, has produced another abcedarium, this one chronicling the misadventures of 26 characters in rhyming verse. This is the first book that Bonder, an artist based near Vancouver, has ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Exile

Unusual Heroes: Canada’s Prime Ministers and Fathers of Confederation

Pacific Tree Frogs

First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane

Summer of Suspense

Breaking Free: The Story of William Kurelek

Marie-claire: A Season of Sorrow

Hallelujah Handel

Garbage Delight: Another Helping

Accidental Alphabet

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