Who’s Afraid of the Dark?

By Christiane Duchesne, Doris Barrette, illus., David Homel, trans.

It probably doesn’t help to explain to a preschooler that it is perfectly normal to be afraid of the dark, and that we need as much reassurance and protection from the dark and its accompanying ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Babe Ruth Ballet School

By Tim Shortt

“The last nine-year-old girl to play Big League baseball was Issy Archer of the 1923 New York Yankees.” All great fantasy books begin like this right off the bat because good fantasy doesn’t pussyfoot around ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Grandpa’s Visit

By Richardo Keens-Douglas, Frances Clancy, illus.

When Grandpa comes to visit, what begins as a surprise for young Jeremy and his parents turns into a shock for the old man. He has travelled all the way from the Caribbean on his ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

What’s He Doing Now?

By Patti Farmer, Janet Wilson, illus.

When a child asks where a baby brother or sister comes from, one tends to grope about in that vast area of response between the cabbage patch and the path to conception. Via a good-humoured ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Three Against Time

By Margaret Taylor

The time travel convention in children’s books has two obvious appeals. It painlessly ushers readers into a historical era and it allows the young characters more scope for acting independently and heroically than in the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Eenie Meenie Manitoba: Playful Poems and Rollicking Rhymes

By Robert Heidbreder, Scot Ritchie, illus.

This book contains some reworked traditional rhymes and some original poems. “To Be or Not to Be” is an updated version of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor” with modern occupations added and all possible offensive stereotypes ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

No Crystal Stair

By Mairuth Sarsfield

Set in Montreal during the unsettled years of the Second World War, Sarsfield’s first novel depicts a community largely invisible to white society beyond the roles it has assigned them as maids, musicians, Pullman porters. ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Roses for Gita

By Rachna Gilmore, Alice Priestley, illus.

This is Rachna Gilmore’s second story about Gita. In Lights for Gita this young immigrant from India received a cold welcome to Canada when a sleet storm all but ruined her Divali, the Hindu festival ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dolina May

By Ishbel Moore

Seventeen-year-old Dolina May has just stormed out of her drunken boyfriend’s parked car in the middle of a torrential downpour. She stomps away down a muddy country road in the middle of nowhere Manitoba. This ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

How a Plant Grows (crabapple Series)

By Bobbie Kalman

Both these new additions to Crabtree’s Crabapple series will appeal to young animal lovers – and their teachers and parents. These books feature an attractive design, large readable typeface, and many colour photographs. How Animals ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Who’s Afraid of the Dark?

The Babe Ruth Ballet School

Grandpa’s Visit

What’s He Doing Now?

Three Against Time

Eenie Meenie Manitoba: Playful Poems and Rollicking Rhymes

No Crystal Stair

Roses for Gita

Dolina May

How a Plant Grows (crabapple Series)

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