★ Ghost Cat

Miss Wilkinson and her cat, Tommy Douglas, have grown old together. But while Miss Wilkinson keeps busy with seniors‚ choir, pottery club, and the social justice committee, Tommy Douglas, at 17, is slowing down, finding ... Read More »

November 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Sindbad in the Land of Giants

By Ludmila Zeman

If there is a lodestar in the Thousand and One Nights, it is the idea that stories, as well as being entertaining, can save your life. Just as Shahrazad, the frame narrator of the Nights, ... Read More »

November 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Wild Bog Tea

By Annette LeBox, Harvey Chan, illus.

The cover of Wild Bog Tea is irresistible, with Harvey Chan’s exquisite sepia-toned pencil drawings on a collage of richly textured, tea-stained papers. Inside, the words and pictures are just as intriguing. The tone is ... Read More »

November 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Long, Long Ago

By Robin Skelton, Pamela Breeze Currie, illus.

Why do the bullfrog, cat, donkey, rabbit, and jackdaw sound as they do? Why does the owl have eyes that do not move? Why does the crocodile have a stiff neck? Why can’t the ostrich ... Read More »

November 28, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster

By Melissa Fay Greene

On Oct. 23, 1958, the floors hit the ceilings of the Number 2 coal mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia, in three massive “bumps.” Above ground it felt like an earthquake, and registered as such on ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

★ Rogue Diamonds: The Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land

By Ellen Bielawski

Rogue Diamonds begins right where it should: on the land. Specifically, the land of the Dene Súliné people, near the northeastern part of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. But it soon shifts to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story

By Heather E. Ingram

Heather Ingram’s memoir about her affair with a 17-year-old student explores one of today’s trickiest topics – the sexual exploitation of minors. In Risking It All Ingram recounts her stark childhood, the emotionally and sexually ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Summer of the Heart: Saving Alexandre

By Paul Adams

We’ve all watched with some amusement as frantic first-time parents worry whether each sound (or lack thereof) emitting from their newborn’s crib is a sign of something critical. In Summer of the Heart, Paul Adams, ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A History of Mistresses

By Elizabeth Abbott

If motherhood is the second-oldest profession, mistressdom followed soon after. It is an evocative word, “mistress,” suggesting sensual sophistication and luxury. Elizabeth Abbott’s A History of Mistresses sets out to determine whether the reality matches ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History

My First Canadian Oxford Dictionary

By Evelyn Goldsmith, compiler, Julie Park and Mark Thurman, illus.

Dictionaries for children are an odd enterprise. They are supposed to be about definitions but they contain words like “day” and “sick,” which I can’t imagine any child looking up for meaning, and they tend ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

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★ Ghost Cat

Sindbad in the Land of Giants

Wild Bog Tea

Long, Long Ago

Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster

★ Rogue Diamonds: The Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land

Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story

Summer of the Heart: Saving Alexandre

A History of Mistresses

My First Canadian Oxford Dictionary

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