The Night Book: Exploring Nature After Dark with Activities, Experiments and Information

By Pamela Hickman, Suzanne Mogensen, illus.

Fascination with, and fear of, the dark are common in children and in many adults too. Pamela Hickman, author of several natural science books for seven to 11-year-olds, including Birdwise, Bugwise, and Plantwise, promises to ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Detective Science: 40 Crime-Solving, Case-Breaking, Crook-Catching Activities for Kids

By Jim Wiese

Many a teacher, embarking on a “mystery theme” in the classroom, has an underlying curricular agenda that includes science instruction. To such a teacher, Jim Wiese’s Detective Science will be pure gold. Wiese acknowledges the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

★ Going to the Fair

By Sheryl McFarlane, Sheena Lott, illus.

Going to the Fair is a straightforward account of the day four children spend at a country fair. They exhibit a calf, a rooster, and a pumpkin, all lovingly raised by hand. They look at ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Doggerel

By Sheila Dalton, Kim LaFave, illus.

In humorous verse, Sheila Dalton’s new book celebrates the diversity of dogs – the shaggy and the waggy, the burly and the curly, the scrawny and the yawny. Although they don’t sparkle with wit, the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating

By Steve Milton

Even before Harding hit Kerrigan, thousands of Canadians were glued to sets and frozen to bleachers, watching Stojko, Chouinard, and Philippe Candeloro, above, spinning around the ice all over the world. And given the relatively ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Life’s Losses: Living Through Grief, Bereavement and Sudden Change

By Betty Jane Wylie

In her preface to Timely Death, B.C. journalist Anne Mullens, who covered the Sue Rodriguez story for The Vancouver Sun and later The Toronto Star, writes of how her attitude towards death changed during the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights

By Anne Mullens

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Scams, Scandals & Skulduggery

By Andreas Schroeder

The slow demise of the CBC, as government budget-cutters press ever onward, poses a worrisome problem for Canadian publishers: without the resources of the national network, where will they find their books? CBC Radio in ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hell No, We Won’t Go: Vietnam Draft Resisters in Canada

By Alan Haig-Brown, introduction by Pierre Berton

When its involvement in Vietnam escalated in 1964, the United States called upon increasing numbers of its young men to enlist in the armed forces. Those who refused had four options: they could become conscientious ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ What God Allows: The Crisis of Faith and Conscience in One Catholic Church

By Ivor Shapiro

When Pope John Paul II released his encyclical Vertitatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) in the fall of 1993, it gave members of the Roman Catholic Church much to ponder. It states that certain acts, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

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