The newest additions to NorthWord Press’s Our Wild World series – now topping 30 titles, ranging from alligators to wolves – focus on three well-known birds of prey. For this group of titles, Calgary author ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Girls taking their first tentative steps into the world of fashion will get sound advice from this book about dressing up for special occasions. Author Jeanne Beker, star of Fashion Television, says that in this ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Since the death of her older brother John, Sarah Wagner has totally lost interest in life. She enters senior year bored with school politics, dating, and her usual girlfriends. Only her friend Donna, a self-proclaimed ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
Prince Pierrot Rudolphe IV L’Orgueil De Montreal, or “Pierre” for short, is a coddled show dog accidentally left behind by his owners at a gas station parking lot in a small Prairie town. Accustomed to ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
On a flight from Vancouver to Toronto, 10-year-olds Alexis and Samantha meet and cook up a plan far beyond either of their wildest dreams. Due to extenuating family circumstances, both girls are being shipped off ... Read More »
May 11, 2005
A seven-year-old of my aquaintance once passed the hours of a long car trip by inventing her own language. The language was based on the ingenious idea of using ordinary English words to mean something ... Read More »
May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
When it comes to Roger’s imagination, the sky’s the limit – or nearly so, since, as the heroic Captain Kaboodle, he can reach outer space. But when Roger gets his first pair of eyeglasses – ... Read More »
May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
Patricia Roy and John Herd Thompson’s book on B.C. closes with, “All you have to do is wake up in B.C. to realize how lucky you are.” This is just as well because, as the ... Read More »
May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History
Rukhsana Khan’s new picture book gives a delightful twist to the classic plotline of a young child’s jealousy about sharing her mother’s attention and affection. The rival in this case is not a younger sibling, ... Read More »
May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
The Molly Fire is an unconventional book. More anthropological than a memoir, too fragmented for any strong narrative lifeline, this book is a miscellany in the best, most exploratory and curious sense of the word.Photographer, ... Read More »
May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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