Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents: The Story of Canada Beneath Your Feet

If you’re wondering what dancing elephants are, they’re huge machines that send powerful shock waves tens of kilometres through the Earth’s crust. Normally used by oil, gas, and mineral exploration companies, these machines have been ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Awards

Working Like a Dog: The Story of Working Dogs Through History

By Gena K. Gorrell

Toronto author Gena K. Gorrell won the Norma Fleck Award for her biography of someone who devoted her life to helping others (Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale). In Working Like a Dog, ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know

By Shari Graydon, Warren Clark, illus.

Growing up in North America it’s possible for children to be exposed to nearly 16,000 advertising messages a day, says Shari Graydon. Yet kids aren’t taught enough media awareness to defend themselves against the onslaught. ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

My Name Is Mitch

By Shelagh Lynn Supeene

Waterloo author Shelagh Lynne Supeene’s debut children’s novel My Name Is Mitch takes an affably humorous, discerning look at some of the problems of growing up: classroom bullies, learning difficulties, and family conflict. Her novel ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

Raging River

By Pam Withers

Jake Evans is a teen with the deck stacked against him: his dad took off without an explanation, Jake struggles in school, and the only way he can afford the expense of kayaking – his ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

The Mysterious Mummer

By L.M. Falcone

When 13-year-old Joey McDermot is sent to Newfoundland to spend Christmas with his recently widowed aunt, he goes under protest. Aunt Corinne has no television and, grief-stricken over the drowning of her husband, she isn’t ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

Flames of the Tiger

By John Wilson

Flames of the Tiger, by Vancouver Island writer John Wilson, is the Second World War story of a German teen who was initially a Nazi sympathizer. Dieter is a 17-year-old who, in the last days ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Ann and Seamus

By Kevin Major, David Blackwood, illus.

Outstanding Newfoundland writer Kevin Major has moved into new terrain with Ann and Seamus, a long, powerful narrative poem based on an event in early Newfoundland history. The story-telling skills that have made Major such ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Mud City

By Deborah Ellis

Mud City, the final volume in Deborah Ellis’s Afghan trilogy, follows 14-year-old Shauzia, Parvana’s best friend, into a refugee camp in Pakistan. Having fled an arranged marriage in Kabul, Shauzia becomes little more than a ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Peter’s Pixie

By Donn Kushner, Sylvie Daigneault, illus.

Young Peter is about to become a big brother; his parents are caring and patient but, preoccupied with the coming baby, they make it clear they have new expectations for their first-born. Prompted perhaps by ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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