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Native Crafts

By Maxine Trottier, Esperança Melo, illus

A generation back, when we kids dressed up as hunter-gatherers and prowled our backyards with bows and arrows, a book like this would have permitted great technological advances on fringed brown-paper jerkins. Following Trottier’s simple ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Kids Can Press Jumbo Book of Gardening

By Karyn Morris, Jane Kurisu, illus.

With these two books, Kids Can launches a new jumbo information book series that’s right on target. Rather than presenting cooking as a social experience designed for rainy days, the cookbook takes a more comprehensive ... Read More »

February 23, 2004

The Kids Can Press Jumbo Cookbook

By Judi Gillies and Jennifer Glossop, Louise Phillips, illus.

February 23, 2004

Oxygen

By Annabel Lyon

What’s happening in Vancouver? The availability of high-grade espresso may be responsible, but the city’s newest fiction writers are certainly subverting the regional stereotype of West Coast mellow. The past couple of years have seen ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Book of You: The Science and Fun of Why You Look, Feel, and Act the Way You Do

By Sylvia Funston, Susanna Denti, illus.

"Every man…represents the unique.” This line from Hermann Hesse’s prologue to Demian might well have been the inspiration for Sylvia Funston’s book. Writing in an upbeat style, the author explains how each person’s physical characteristics, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Pull Gently, Tear Here

By Alexandra Leggat

The motives that compel a writer to create very short fiction are various, but whatever the reason for a story’s length, one rule remains constant: the fewer the words, the more crucial each one becomes. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

My Father and Me: A Memory Scrapbook for Kids

By Jane Drake and Ann Love, Scot Ritchie, illus.

Jane Drake and Ann Love, sisters and co-authors of several activity books for kids, have teamed up with Vancouver illustrator Scot Ritchie to produce a pair of memory scrapbooks, the third and fourth in a ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

My Mother and Me: A Memory Scrapbook for Kids

By Jane Drake and Ann Love, Scot Ritchie, illus.

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Ghost of Avalanche Mountain

By Julie Lawson

The Ghost of Avalanche Mountain is the final book in Vancouver Island writer Julie Lawson’s Goldstone trilogy. The stories span several generations, each propelled by a mystical gem and its effects on the people who ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Money Pit Mystery

By Eric Walters

Say the words “Oak Island” and your imagination immediately conjures up images of pirate ships, Captain Kidd’s legendary treasure supposedly hidden on the island, and more than 200 years of ghostly goings-on. Eric Walters deftly ... Read More »