★ Daedalus and the Minotaur

By Priscilla Galloway, Normand Cousineau, illus.

Priscilla Galloway’s third book in the Tales of Ancient Lands series is an assured and well-paced retelling of the famous Greek myth. The Athenian inventor Daedalus designs a labyrinth at the Cretan palace of Knossos ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Rebel of Dark Creek

By Nikki Tate

Ever since Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, and the Bobbsey Twins, young readers have loved series books. Rebel of Dark Creek is the first in a series called Stablemates about a girl named Jessa and her ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

DogStar

By Beverley Wood and Chris Wood

Thirteen-year-old Jeff is having such a hard time getting over the demise of Buddy, his pet and constant companion since his first birthday, that his parents have taken him on an Alaskan cruise to help ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Escape from Big Muddy

By Eric Wilson

Escape from Big Muddy is a retrospective journey into a kind of high-tech Treasure Island. It takes place in the middle of the 21st century, and video conferencing is the norm. Liz Austen, 60-year-old partner ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Dume’s Roar

By Tololwa M. Mollel, Kathy Blankley Roman, illus.

The forest creatures have gathered to choose a king. Kobe the tortoise thinks he’d be perfect for the job, but Dume – a lion with a fearsome roar – gets the majority vote. Dume proves ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ My Brother’s Train

By Heather Kellerhals-Stewart, Paul Zwolak, illus.

A young girl and her older brother travel from Ontario to the West Coast by train. Along the way they see the prairies and the mountains. They stay a while on the coast with a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

A Safe Place: A Journal for Women with Breast Cancer

By Jennifer Pike

“Most of the women I knew were frightened out of all proportion to statistical reality. Although heart disease was far likelier to kill them, they worried more about breast cancer,” writes American journalist Karen Stabiner ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment