Jillian Jiggs and the Great Big Snow

Whenever I read a book to my children and they enjoy it more than I do, I send them straight to bed and assume they’re just tired and exhibiting poor aesthetic judgment. But when, despite ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Royal Ransom

By Eric Walters

Set in Canada’s Far North, Royal Ransom follows the conventional wilderness survival/ adventure genre popularized by Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet. But Walters adds novelty by making two of the young characters members of the British monarchy. ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Authors

Everest: Book One: The Contest

By Gordon Korman

First published at 14 with over 45 books to his credit, Gordon Korman is a force of nature. His last trilogy, Island, sold more than 240,000 copies in Canada alone. This new trilogy pits his ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Believing in Books: The Story of Lillian Smith

By Sydell Waxman, Patty Gallinger and Liz Milkau, illus.

For 40 years, from 1912 to 1952, Lillian H. Smith embodied librarianship in Canada. As the first children’s librarian in the British Empire and the director of children’s services at Toronto Public Library, she created ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

Tunnels!

By Diane Swanson

There are 51 million kilometres of service lines and tunnels beneath New York City. That’s only one of many interesting facts in Tunnels!, first in Annick Press’s new True Stories from the Edge series.Award-winning Vancouver ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

Real Stories from the Rink

By Brian McFarlane, Steve Nease, illus.

After 27 years as a colour commentator for CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada and writing 50 books on the country’s favourite obsession, Brian McFarlane has quite a collection of anecdotes about the game. In Real ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: History

Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes!

By Sally Fitz-Gibbon, Farida Zaman, illus.

West Coast author Sally Fitz-Gibbon has parlayed the magic of wearing fresh footwear into a joyful rhyming picture book. Using simple structured rhyme and ending each line with the word “shoes,” Fitz- Gibbon tells the ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

See Saw Saskatchewan: More Playful poems from Coast to Coast

By Robert Heidbreder, Scot Ritchie, illus.

A companion volume to Eenie Meenie Manitoba, this new collection of rollicking verses uses Canadian place names, as well as some provincial flowers and birds, to give national flavour to its nonsense rhymes. Heidbreder is ... Read More »

December 1, 2003

Stanley’s Party

By Linda Bailey, Bill Slavin, illus.

Stanley knows the couch is off-limits to dogs, but his owners are out every evening and he’s bored. So one night he sits on the couch and nothing happens! Emboldened, he turns on music the ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

By Gillian Robinson, ed.

The Inuit-made film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner gains much of its power from documentary verisimilitude, to say nothing of the unforgettable image of a naked man running for his life over a vast ice floe. ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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Quill and Quire

Jillian Jiggs and the Great Big Snow

Royal Ransom

Everest: Book One: The Contest

Believing in Books: The Story of Lillian Smith

Tunnels!

Real Stories from the Rink

Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes!

See Saw Saskatchewan: More Playful poems from Coast to Coast

Stanley’s Party

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

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