The Spy in the Alley (a Dinah Galloway Mystery)

Kudos to Vancouver writer and editor Melanie Jackson for her novel The Spy in the Alley, the first of a series featuring a saucy 11-year-old detective/songbird named Dinah Galloway. With writing as delicious as the ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

A Noodle Up Your Nose

By Frieda Wishinsky, Louise-Andrée Laliberté, illus.

How will Orca distinguish its new series of chapter books, Orca Echoes, in a market glutted with fiction for beginning readers? Perhaps by providing a variety of genres. The first batch includes: one strong historical ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Fortress of Kaspar Snit

By Cary Fagan

Toronto author Cary Fagan’s first children’s novel is an adventure-fantasy about a battle between the nice and not-so-nice. The Blandes are a nice family with eccentric interests. Mr. Blande has covered every inch of their ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Silver Moon: Stories from Antonin Dvorak’s Most Enchanting Operas

By Ian Krykorka, Vladyana Krykorka, illus.

Operas and fairy tales have a natural affinity, and no one knew this more than the great Czech composer Dvorak, who put many of his native folk tales to music. His best-known opera, the enchanting ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Good for Nothing

By Michel Noël, Shelley Tanaka, trans.

Fifteen-year-old Nipishish, a Métis orphan, finds things have changed for the worse on the Lac Cabonga reserve when he returns home after being kicked out of residential school. Loggers are altering the northern Quebec landscape, ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How Baseball Works

By Keltie Thomas, Greg Hall, illus.

With spring here and the thoughts of young sports fans turning to baseball, Toronto writer Keltie Thomas and illustrator Greg Hall (creators of How Hockey Works) move from the ice to the diamond with How ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

On Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Heroes

By Hugh Brewster

With June 6, 2004, marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day, a flurry of books on the subject has hit the market. On Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Heroes aims to make this historic event come to ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Struggling for Perfection: The Story of Glenn Gould

By Vladimir Konieczny, Chrissie Wysotski, illus.

It’s always a challenge to present the life of a famous person, especially a famous adult, in a way that engages young readers. But Napoleon’s latest title in its Stories of Canada series exceeds all ... Read More »

April 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ As Long As There Are Whales

By Evelyne Daigle, Daniel Grenier, illus., Geneviève Wright, trans.

Did you know that the average weight of a blue whale in the St. Lawrence is equal to that of 25 elephants? Or that the ancestors of whales were carnivorous land mammals that resembled dogs? ... Read More »

April 7, 2004

Java Programming Basics

By Mark Mangan et al

Back in the dark days of 1990, when the arrival of the push-button home seemed imminent, the folks at Sun Microsystems launched an ambitious project. They would develop a revolutionary computer programming language – one ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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