The Baseball Book: A Young Player’s Guide to Baseball

The blurb on the back – “Everything you need to know to play the greatest game in the world! ” – sums up this book’s tone and presentation perfectly. The Baseball Book, by Toronto Blue ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Jumbo Book of Paper Crafts

By Amanda Lewis, Jane Kurisu, illus.

Beginning with a half-page history of paper, Amanda Lewis, a seasoned author of children’s craft books, has compiled 68 paper crafts. The projects range in complexity from a basic folded card to intricate items like ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Making Masks

By Renée Schwarz

Author, illustrator, and toy designer Renee Schwarz unmasks a new addition to the Kids Can Press series of craft books. Making Masks provides step-by-step instructions for 13 intriguing craft projects ideal for Halloween, drama class, ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hubcaps and Puppies

By Rosemary Nelson

When her dog dies, Nikki, the 13-year-old narrator of this first-person novel, feels she’ll never want another. Her mother, however, while shopping for used hubcaps, finds a miserable puppy and brings him home as a ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Parvana’s Journey

By Deborah Ellis

One of the most interesting things about Deborah Ellis’s new novel, Parvana’s Journey, is its absence of human antagonists. A sequel to her hugely successful The Breadwinner (which has sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide), ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Jo’s Triumph

By Nikki Tate

Jo’s Triumph, Nikki Tate’s 10th novel, is an adventurous yarn in the spirit of Mary Downing Hahn’s The Gentleman Outlaw and Me-Eli. Set in Utah in the late 1850s, the novel charts the daring escapades ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Losing Forever

By Gayle Friesen

Fifteen-year-old Jes is having one heck of a summer. Her mother is consumed by plans for her upcoming second marriage; her best girlfriend is totally engrossed with a hunky new boyfriend; and her best buddy ... Read More »

January 14, 2004

Angelique: Buffalo Hunt

By Cora Taylor

Buffalo Hunt is one of two new titles in Penguin’s successful Our Canadian Girl historical fiction series. (Budge Wilson’s Izzie: The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, set in Second World War Halifax, is the other.)The novel ... Read More »

January 14, 2004

Son of the Mob

By Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman’s new YA novel, Son of the Mob, is a comically winning combination of The Sopranos and Romeo and Juliet. Except for the fact that his father is a Mafia don, Vince Luca is ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

★ Dead Man’s Gold and Other Stories

By Paul Yee, Harvey Chan, illus.

Paul Yee wonderfully illuminates dark chapters of Canadian history in Dead Man’s Gold and Other Stories. This latest work by the Governor General’s Award-winner is a collection of 10 stories told in the folktale style ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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The Baseball Book: A Young Player’s Guide to Baseball

The Jumbo Book of Paper Crafts

Making Masks

Hubcaps and Puppies

★ Parvana’s Journey

Jo’s Triumph

Losing Forever

Angelique: Buffalo Hunt

Son of the Mob

★ Dead Man’s Gold and Other Stories

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