Makin’ Muffins

By Susan Devins, Yvonne Cathcart, illus.

Whatever excellent taste they may promise, recipes for kids must be straightforward, precise, and leave little to the imagination.Bake It and Build It, a kind of edible architecture for the oven, certainly woos the prospective ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Bake It and Build It

By Elizabeth MacLeod, Tracy Walkeri, llus.

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Prairie Fire!

By Bill Freeman

Prairie Fire! tells how the Bains family, homesteading in Manitoba in the 1870s, find themselves in the middle of a dispute between other settlers and the Métis who roam the land – a dispute that ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Snake Dreamer

By Priscilla Galloway

Priscilla Galloway’s Snake Dreamer is faithfully evoked in cover artist Janet Wooley’s collage of beautiful and monstrous faces, crumbling temples, barren seashores, and sinuous serpents against a wash of intense Mediterranean blue. The story begins ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Greater than Angels

By Carol Matas

It is the early 1940s, in Vichy France, and a number of Jewish teenagers, having lost nearly everything of their former lives and beliefs, are sitting on the porch of a Red Cross shelter and ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Rose by Night

By Mireille Levert

Little Rose Redberry’s bedtime routine involves a drink, which leads to a sudden wakeup later when she needs to “pee so bad.” Easier said than done. Rose’s boisterous, colourful bedroom is fraught with danger. A ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Catmagic

By Loris Lesynski

When an aging witch begins to run out of spells, she needs a congenial place to hang up her broomstick. So when Arabelle notices an opening in the witches’ retirement home, she consults her cat ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Vanilla Gorilla

By William New, Vivian Bevis, illus.

The title of this first collection of children’s poetry sums it up: food, animals, and whimsy take centre stage. Vanilla Gorilla is a mix of nonsense verse, family life poems, and a lone haiku. A ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Creatures: An Alphabet for Adults and Worldly Children

By Frank Newfeld

Creatures is a beautifully produced, full-colour alphabet book full of surprises. It’s not the sort of book that teaches upper and lower case letters. Rather, it’s a guessing game – you search the elegant wordless ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times

By Sylvia Bashevkin

Feminists feeling vanquished by despair can take heart from Sylvia Bashevkin’s Women on the Defensive. While this respected political science professor can hardly be called a Pollyanna, she is no Cassandra either. Instead, she is ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Makin’ Muffins

Bake It and Build It

Prairie Fire!

Snake Dreamer

★ Greater than Angels

Rose by Night

Catmagic

Vanilla Gorilla

Creatures: An Alphabet for Adults and Worldly Children

Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times

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