Washington Diaries: 1981-1989

Allan Gotlieb’s Washington Diaries isn’t a page-turner, but it is an exhaustively detailed, day-by-day account of the tenure of one of the most influential and memorable Canadian ambassadors to the United States. The accounts of ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Canadian Hockey Atlas

By Stephen Cole

Don’t take The Canadian Hockey Atlas on your team’s next road trip – not if you want to find the rink, anyway. Each of the 11 chapters here – one per province, plus one for ... Read More »

March 21, 2007 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans

By Dr. David Waltner-Toews

There is not enough vaccine to inoculate us all against bird flu, and even if there eventually were, the disease would likely have already mutated, rendering the vaccine mostly powerless. The latest book by Kitchener, ... Read More »

March 19, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Rollback

By Robert J. Sawyer

In Rollback, bestselling Toronto science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer explores both the nature of time and the questions surrounding the scientific ability to fundamentally alter the human lifespan. In the process, he also delves deeply ... Read More »

March 12, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd

By Karsten Heuer

Being Caribou is a kids’ version of wildlife biologist and park warden Karsten Heuer’s adult book of the same name. (It is also the name of a related National Film Board DVD.) The children’s book ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Beware, Pirates! Canadian Flyer Adventures 1

By Frieda Wishinsky; Dean Griffiths, illus.

A limited vocabulary and simple, predictable sentence structures make this time-travel adventure, with its glimpse into Canadian history, easily accessible to kids who are learning to read chapter books. Emily and Matt find a magic ... Read More »

March 5, 2007

The Candy Darlings

By Christine Walde

In her wildly inventive debut novel, Ontario author Christine Walde begins as a girl-versus-girl-gang story, then heads deep into the psychological woods. After Walde’s unnamed narrator starts at a new school in a new town, ... Read More »

March 5, 2007

The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr

By Nicolas Debon

The boom in graphic novels for the young is easily understood. Ever since Art Spiegelman’s stunning Maus, published in 1986, expanded the genre to include weighty themes, artists have realized the elastic potential of the ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Aunts Come Marching

By Bill Richardson; Cynthia Nugent, illus.

How many kids have livened up a rainy afternoon or a long car trip by singing the innumerable verses of “The Ants Came Marching”? And how often have parents, teachers, or camp leaders been driven ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Grumpy Bird

By Jeremy Tankard

He was too grumpy to eat. He was too grumpy to play. In fact, he was too grumpy to fly. ‘Looks like I’m walking today,’ said Bird.” And yet, Grumpy Bird, written and illustrated by ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Washington Diaries: 1981-1989

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★ The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans

Rollback

Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd

Beware, Pirates! Canadian Flyer Adventures 1

The Candy Darlings

The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr

The Aunts Come Marching

★ Grumpy Bird

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