Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Over the past five years, poll after poll has placed solving homelessness near the top of Canadians’ priorities. As if to reflect that concern, a growing number of books on poverty from high-profile publishers has ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate

By Alberto Manguel

Four months of eyeballing slides at 8:30 a.m. in “Introduction to Visual Perception” changed everything. The instructor was a draft dodger with impossible sideburns, and he showed us how to read the stories inside pictures. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Ballet Book: The Young Performer’s Guide to Classical Dance

By Deborah Bowes and the National Ballet School, Lydia Pawelak, photog.

At age six, after I saw a performance of The Nutcracker, visions of pink crinoline tutus, sparkling tiaras, and satin ribbons danced through my head. I begged my mother to enroll me in ballet lessons. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sammy Sitstill: How Sammy Feels About Attention Deficit Disorder and What He Does About It

By Catherine Thompson

This rhyming book is a first-person account of Sammy, a cartoon child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) who hears the angry words, “Sammy, sit still!” so often that he thinks that’s his name. Written ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Better Books! Better Readers!

By Linda Hart-Hewins and Jan Wells

The authors, seasoned educators, have carefully designed a literature-rich program for primary students. Based on the premise that lifelong literacy is best achieved in an environment where real books are celebrated, this book includes a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

It’s Your Future: You + Investing = Success

By Patricia Lovett-Reid and Anna Iacobelli

The basic premise of this book is simple: If young people develop good money habits at an early age, they’ll lay the groundwork for financial success as adults.Authors Patricia Lovett-Reid and Anna Iacobelli of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Menace and Mischief

By Sylvia Gunnery

The cast of characters here is lengthy. This is the story of CJ, Raymond, and Julie (three Grade 7 students), Hobo (their homeroom hamster), Miss Hiss (the science lab’s boa constrictor), Wilson (a Grade 9 ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

White as the Waves: A Novel of Moby Dick

By Alison Baird

This intriguing adventure is billed as a retelling of Melville’s classic – with a catch. It’s told from the whale’s point of view. This is an original but difficult premise to work with and has ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Smugglers

By Iain Lawrence

Hands up, anyone who read Moonfleet (a swashbuckling adventure novel by J. Meade Falkner that was required reading in Canadian schools during the 1950s and 1960s). Remember the scene in which John accidentally puts his ... Read More »

February 12, 2004

Wherever Bears Be

By Sue Ann Alderson, Arden Johnson, illus.

In Vancouver writer Sue Ann Alderson’s latest book, the bickering sisters Samantha and Belinda head up the mountain to pick berries. Along the way, they imagine they see and hear bears everywhere. Samantha sings a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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