Grow Wild! Native Plant Gardening in Canada and Northern United States

By Lorraine Johnson, photographs by Andrew Leyerle

Four years ago I was a complete gardening ignoramus. I thought hostas were a sort of Latin American mobster (it’s a long story), lupines a terrible skin disease, and city people who grew their own ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

An Ecology of Enchantment: A Year in a Country Garden

By Des Kennedy

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Beautiful Place on Yonge Street

By Don Trembath

This is the third installment in the life and times of Harper Winslow, first-person narrator of The Tuesday Café and A Fly Named Alfred. Harper, now 16, is still a loner with a sarcastic edge ... Read More »

March 1, 2004

The Diamondback Dog

By George Bowering

The Diamondback Dog is the second foray into young adult fiction for George Bowering, a two-time Governor General’s Award-winning poet, and critic, historian, and baseball fan. In it, the eccentric foursome from his first YA ... Read More »

March 1, 2004

Candles

By Lynne Kositsky, Antonio de Thomasis, illus.

Girls in the 1990s are uninterested in family memorabilia, religious heritage, and events that happened over half a century ago to people they’ve never met. So Anya finds being Jewish at Christmas a big pain: ... Read More »

March 1, 2004

Bat Summer

By Sarah Withrow

Bat Summer, the winner of Groundwood Books’ 20th Anniversary First Novel for Children Contest, introduces a gritty new voice to Canadian children’s literature. In her children’s novel debut, author Sarah Withrow presents an imaginatively tough ... Read More »

March 1, 2004

Turns on a Dime

By Julie Lawson

In the first book in Julie Lawson’s Goldstone trilogy, a goldstone pendant sustained a motherless girl growing up in a mining town. In this book – the trilogy’s second – the setting moves to Victoria ... Read More »

March 1, 2004

Company’s Coming for Kids: Lunches

By Jean Paré

Lunches, from brown-bag to at-home, are the focus of this newest offering from Company’s Coming. This cookbook aims to give aspiring chefs aged eight to 15 some luncheon ideas beyond the peanut-butter sandwich – taking ... Read More »

March 1, 2004

★ She Shoots … She Scores!: A Complete Guide to Girls’ and Women’s Hockey

By Barbara Stewart

Compiled by the Ross family (father Julian is the founder of Polestar Books, while sons Noah and Jesse are 12- and 15-year-old hockey experts), the Amazing Allstar Hockey Activity Book is a jam-packed compendium of ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction