Buried Treasure

Barbara Haworth-Attard is an Ontario author best known for her Mr. Christie Book Award nominee Home Child. In Buried Treasure, she tackles a coming-of-age novel for middle readers.The world is a bleak place to 15-year-old ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Nellie’s Quest

By Connie Brummel Crook

If you crossed Anne of Green Gables with Little House on the Prairie and added a sharper political focus, the hybrid might resemble Nellie’s Quest. This is the second of Connie Brummel Crook’s thoroughly researched ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Winds Through Time

By Ann Walsh, ed.

Writing for children tends to be conservative in form. One effect of this tendency is that children’s literature can be a haven for writers who are drawn to traditional forms that are currently unfashionable in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Rodeo Pup

By Lisa Rotenberg

Colour and design are standout features of this first picture book by Toronto artist Lisa Rotenberg. Rodeo Pup is about a young Dalmatian who runs afoul of his young owner and then redeems himself with ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Kitoto the Mighty

By Tololwa M. Mollel, Kristi Frost, illus.

This new book adds to the treasury of African stories, traditional and modern, that Tololwa Mollel has brought to Canadian children’s literature from his Tanzanian background. As he explains in a note at the end ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

New at the Zoo

By Frank B. Edwards, John Bianchi, illus.

Bungalo Books has added three titles to their New Reader Series, launched in 1997. The audience for beginning readers is wide, ranging from toddlers to remedial learners in Grade 2. This series defines a workable ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Troubles with Bubbles

By Frank B. Edwards, John Bianchi, illus.

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Is the Spaghetti Ready?

By Frank B. Edwards, John Bianchi, illus.

February 27, 2004

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe

By Sandra Gulland

Sandra Gulland’s fictional trilogy of the life of Josephine Bonaparte began with The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B, published in 1995. Her second novel, Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe, continues in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ghost of Understanding

By Jean Smith

Jean Smith is an artist: like all genuine talents of the maverick variety, she feels maddeningly and wholly entitled to our attention, and she hasn’t an atom of self-consciousness about relating events and displaying emotions ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

Buried Treasure

Nellie’s Quest

Winds Through Time

Rodeo Pup

Kitoto the Mighty

New at the Zoo

Troubles with Bubbles

Is the Spaghetti Ready?

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe

The Ghost of Understanding

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