How Animals Communicate (crabapple Series)

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

The Chicken Doesn’t Skate

By Gordon Korman

Although the latest novel from Gordon Korman sports a less-than-stellar cover illustration, the story is up to Korman’s usual standards and his many fans will not be disappointed. The Chicken Doesn’t Skate is aimed squarely ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

I’m Not Convinced

By Beth Goobie

Sharon Frejer and her single mom spent years with her mother’s violent brother Lawrence. Now, they have moved to Edmonton to live with Sharon’s Uncle Bert, an overly critical bigot. As Sharon begins Grade 8 ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

More Animal Heroes

By Karleen Bradford

This sequel to Animal Heroes tells more amazing stories of heroic animals. Cats and dogs save lives, foil thieves, and rescue other animals in danger. More Animal Heroes features dogs and cats almost exclusively, although ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Silverwing

By Kenneth Oppel

When he was only 15, Kenneth Oppel’s first book was recommended for publication by his favourite author, Roald Dahl. Fourteen years later, Oppel (former editor of Q&Q’s BfYP section) has just published his 14th book ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Beetle Bedlam

By Vlasta van Kampen

Vlasta van Kampen thanks scientists and technicians at Agriculture Canada’s Centre for Land and Biological Resources at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa for their interest and continuous flow of information over the three years ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Discovering the Iceman: What was it like to find a 5,300-year-old mummy? (I Was There Series)

By Shelley Tanaka, Laurie McGaw, illus.

Discovering the Iceman tells eight-to 12-year-olds about the 1991 discovery, identification, and subsequent study of a glacier-preserved, late Stone Age man and his belongings. It’s a book that, though carefully and attractively designed, scores low ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

As for Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross

By Keath Fraser

Early in this memoir, Keath Fraser writes of his subject, “He resisted summary. He took his own measure from a world often foreign to his, the straight world or else another country’s culture, and seldom ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

If You Could Wear My Sneakers!

By Sheree Fitch, Darcia Labrosse, illus.

Award-winning performance poet Sheree Fitch (author of There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen and Mable Murple) has teamed with illustrator Darcia Labrosse to produce a book of poems about children’s rights. Peter Gzowski provides the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Dispatches from the Poverty Line

By Pat Capponi

A war is being fought across Canada right now, but it’s one we seldom see dramatized in vivid images on the late-night television news. The war, of course, is the poverty war, and depending on your ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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