Let’s Call It Canada: Amazing Stories of Canadian Place Names

By Susan Hughes, Clive Dobson and Jolie Dobson, illus.

No one’s trying to hide lights under any bushels where these two titles are concerned. Highly energetic, hard-selling text on the cover (“amazing,” “fascinating,” “astounding” and “WOW”) sets the pace. These books share a mission, ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

Cool Woods: A Trip Around the World’s Boreal Forest

By Jane Drake and Ann Love, Andrew Kiss, illus.

The vast boreal forests – the “lungs of the world” circling the north from Canada and Alaska through Asia, Europe, and Scotland – are crucial to the planet’s health. To look after them, we need ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

Rosie in New York City: Gotcha!

By Carol Matas

Carol Matas, the author of 25 novels for children and young adults, is best known for her historical fiction. Her latest novel, the first in a planned trilogy, is set in 1910, in the tumult ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

★ Tom Finder

By Martine Leavitt

Most fictional characters come fully assembled by the author. For Tom, the 15-year-old hero of Martine Leavitt’s new novel, some assembly is required – by Tom himself. He has landed on the streets of Calgary ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

Dot to Dot in the Sky: Stories of the Planets

By Joan Marie Galat, Lorna Bennett, illus.

Like its predecessor in the Dot to Dot in the Sky series, Stories of the Planets is somewhat deceptively packaged. A quick glance at the cover with its brightly coloured drawings of the first few ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

Why Animals Show off

By Peter Cook and Laura Suzuki, Ron Broda, illus.

The newest work of non-fiction by well-known children’s science writers Peter Cook and Laura Suzuki begins by asking the question “If blending in helps animals stay safe, why would they want to be showoffs?” In ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

William Lyon Mackenzie King: Dreams and Shadows

By Lian Goodall

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, hoped to be remembered as “the man who did the most for Canada.” Our most enduring memory of him, however, seems to be as the guy who ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

By Stan Douglas

Long deemed by many to be Canada’s worst neighbourhood, and further degenerated by the infusion of cheap crack cocaine, most of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood has resisted all efforts at gentrification and reform. A block ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius

By Elizabeth MacLeod

The life story of Albert Einstein, the man who opened the Pandora’s box of nuclear energy, is one of the great parables of our age. It’s a hopeful tale of a late bloomer who triumphed ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

The Night Walker

By Richard Thompson, Martin Springett, illus.

Richard Thompson and Martin Springett continue to explore mythology in The Night Walker, their latest collaboration. The story opens with a native boy adventuring starts homeward, strange noises follow him but stop abruptly whenever he ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Let’s Call It Canada: Amazing Stories of Canadian Place Names

Cool Woods: A Trip Around the World’s Boreal Forest

Rosie in New York City: Gotcha!

★ Tom Finder

Dot to Dot in the Sky: Stories of the Planets

Why Animals Show off

William Lyon Mackenzie King: Dreams and Shadows

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

Albert Einstein: A Life of Genius

The Night Walker

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