Children’s / Teenage: General interest

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For Sure! For Sure!

In Mus White’s skillful adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story There Is No Doubt About It, the news that a hen has lost a feather is blown out of proportion into an enormous scandal.

Car Smarts

Phil Edmonston, author of the Lemon-Aid guides to car buying, is one of North America’s leading consumer advocates. He and Maureen Sawa, a well-known children’s librarian, have written a book jammed ...

More Than You Can Chew

More than You Can Chew has been called a One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for young adults.

Marty Black has retreated from a difficult family situation into the area she can best control, her own appetites. ...

Emily Carr

Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Nonfiction

Selected as Honour Book by the Children’s Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year

The brilliant artist Emily Carr lived at the ...

Panda Rescue

The giant panda is the world’s most beloved animal -- and one of the rarest. Firefly Animal Rescue is a new series of books about endangered and threatened species and what is being done to protect ...

Cool Woods

Winner of the Skipping Stones Honor Award in the Ecology and Nature Books category
The boreal forest is the last great forest wilderness on earth. It drapes across the subarctic right around the world. ...

What`s the Matter with Albert?

The world knows Albert Einstein as one of the greatest thinkers and scientists of all time. What’s the Matter with Albert? introduces young readers to the life and character of this famous figure, telling ...

Hana's Suitcase

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan from the Auschwitz museum in Germany. Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, was captivated by the writing on ...