This is a big year for Anne of Green Gables fans, marking the 100th anniversary of the famous book’s publication. Kids Can Press salutes this centennial in one of the latest additions to their Kids ... Read More »
Yukon writer Claire Eamer raises two questions here for young readers: First, what did the extinct ancestors of today’s animals look like? Second, what forces of nature have conspired over time to make some creatures ... Read More »
March 13, 2008
When Marco is accepted as a junior apprentice to young Michelangelo Buonarroti, he is excited and fearful. His father, a chemist, has trained him to mix his secret formulas for artists’ colours, but Marco knows ... Read More »
March 12, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
Winston of Churchill is a brilliant book. Great fun to read and look at, it painlessly teaches children a number of important facts. With captivating wit, author Jean Davies Okimoto explores global warming, Manitoba geography, ... Read More »
March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
Many child prodigies have lived sad lives, peaking early and ultimately failing to outdistance their plodding contemporaries. Often they have been performers whose extraordinary abilities were exploited by their families for profit or glory. Happily, ... Read More »
March 6, 2008
The innovative minds at JackFruit Press know the secret to engaging kids in their own country’s history: take the subject out of the school textbooks and turn it into a tale teeming with conspiracy, bravery, ... Read More »
March 6, 2008
Mahtab Narsimhan brings imagery from her native India to the story of Tara, an Indian girl who battles an evil monster/magician in order to retrieve her family and save her village. Tara’s mother and beloved ... Read More »
March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
At first, Rosie is very taken with her new little sister, Buttercup. But before long, she begins to resent Buttercup’s messy intrusion into her life and tries to give her away. So begins this unexceptional ... Read More »
March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
What can a kid do when he’s moved over and over again, and the place he’s moved to now is the very worst of all? Matt is so angry he could throw a stick, but ... Read More »
March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
Everyone knows too much sugar is bad for you. But after reading Elizabeth Abbott’s brilliant and assiduously researched Sugar, the truth of exactly how bad will become clear. Abbott takes a spoonful of sugar and ... Read More »
March 3, 2008 | Filed under: History
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