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JONES, Raymond & Jon C. Stott (E) In this 2nd edition (earlier edition was titled Canadian Books for Children) Raymond Jones and Jon C. Stott have portrayed 133 of Canada's [...]

MARTHE, Jocelyn (G) This story takes place in the late nineteenth century in a small town near New York. Josephine was only twenty-two inches tall, and her parents charged a [...]

GILMORE, Rachana (G) Mina is eagerly planning to celebrate Holi, the Hindi spring festival of colour. Traditionally, she and her family have a party and Mina invites all her classmates. [...]

RUTLEDGE, Margie (G) Reminiscent of the fantasy works of C.S. Lewis and E. Nesbitt, this interesting fantasy provides the three Lawrence children: twelve-year-old Abigail, ten-year-old Jacob and five year-old Ernest [...]

LEBLANC, Leo Leo discovers that having a vampire for a friend can be very tricky, especially when Julio can only come out at night and will die when exposed to [...]

WALTERS, Eric (A) The young players learn a lot more than basketball skills in their practice sessions. Marcus is from 'the complex' whereas Nick and Kia have comfortable suburban homes; [...]

LARKSPUR, Penelope (G) There are many books about fairies, most of them designed to intrigue children and expand upon the lore about magical creatures. Tales abound about these mythical folk [...]

BODGER, Joan (G) This book is a fable about the healing power of storytelling. Bodger's storytelling talents shine through with recurring themes and characters we can recognize from our folklore. [...]

Feature Column Resource Link's reviewers have selected the following titles as 'The Best' in Canadian resources for children and young adults for the 1999 year. Picture Books Bailey, Debbie. Barclay, [...]

VAN DE WIEL, Debi (A) Two cousins, Laura Rose and Ashley Marie, both aged 8, spend a summer's day together enjoying the thrills of washing doll's clothes and producing too [...]

MASON, Patricia (G) The enticing cover, painted by Robert Bateman, shows Joseph as an old man with the Osprey and Purple Martin soaring behind him and foretells the respect that [...]

JAM, Teddy (E) It's the end of another school year. Instead of being happy about the ensuing summer holidays, our heroine, Charlotte and her friend Mimi are sad because their [...]

BURDETT, Lois (G) Power struggles, magic, adventure, nymphs, romance! Shakespeare's Yes! This book is part of a series entitled The interesting story line and detailed, attractive illustrations are appealing to [...]

TROTTIER, Maxine (G) Maxine Trottier is an award winning author (CLA Book of the Year Award for The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing), and Rajka Kupesic is a talented artist [...]

OPPEL, Kenneth (G) Emma Swayne is a contest junkie. In the last two and half years, Emma has entered every contest known to human-kind. She has filled out numerous entry [...]

GUGLER, Laurel Dee (A) This is a fun book to read to very young children to build their verbal vocabulary on feelings and emotions that a young child may experience [...]

HUNTER, Bernice Thurman (A) This edition of Hunter's 1987 Willie, his mother and his father are the main characters. It is difficult to imagine a man more stern than his [...]

COADY, Mary Frances (E) This novel was a delight from start to finish, also a wonderfully creative way to 'slip in' an author biography yet tell a beautiful story! There [...]

VAZQUEZ, Diana (G) There was a superstition in the mines of Nova Scotia that if a girl went down in the mine there would be a cave-in or worse. But [...]

KORMAN, Gordon (G) In this classic 'come from behind' hockey story, Korman touches several hot buttons that will keep young hockey fans reading. How should players be placed with teams? [...]

(Sports Stories Series) James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. 1998. Gr. 4 - 8. 93p. 1-55028-616-1. Pbk. $ 8.95 This is another in the Sports Stories Series published by Lorimer. It [...]

Resource Links' reviewers have selected these title as 'The Best' in Canadian resources for children and young adults during this past year of publication. Picture Books Beck, Andrea. Elliot's Emergency. [...]

Illustrated by Muriel Wood. Tundra Books, 1987 (reissued with new illustrations 1998). 28p. Illus. Gr. 4-8. 0-88776-455-x Hdbk. $17.99 In Margaret Laurence's later years she wrote several stories for children [...]

Penguin Canada, 1998. 309p. (includes introduction, notes about the contributors and copyright acknowledgments) Gr. 4-9. 0-670-87896-0. Hdbk. $ 25.00 Kit Pearson begins her anthology of stories and excerpts from novels [...]

(Northern Lights Young Novels). Red Deer College Press, 1997. 199 pp. Gr. 5 - 7. 0-88995-165-9. Pbk. $9.95. Cora Taylor is one of the most dynamic Canadian children's authors I've [...]

Beach Holme, 1996. 108p. Gr. 6-8. 1-88878-364-7. Pbk. $ 8.95. This second book by Ginny Russell focuses on a 14 year old's struggle to cope with the recent death of [...]

Stoddart, 1997. 170pp. (Grades 6-9). 0-7737-5891-7. Paperback. $8.95. Julie Lawson's new book is historical fiction based on events surrounding two disastrous avalanches in Rogers Pass around the turn of the [...]

Napoleon, 1997, 119 p. (Grades 3-6). 0-929141-55-5. Paperback. $6.95. Wren, a young girl in Trenton, Ontario finds a mirror in an abandoned film studio which allows her to travel back [...]

MCGRATH, Robin Hoist Your Sails and Run Tuckamore Books, 1999. 194p. Gr. 7-9. 1-894294-11-4. Pbk. $11.95 (G) It is very clear that the author of this book gets a great [...]

HUGHES, Monica Two girls discover that the pet store puppy they have befriended has been purchased. When they search for the new owners in order to visit the puppy, they [...]

SKARMETA, Antonio (G) Pedro enjoys playing soccer in the street with his friends. He wishes he had a black and white leather soccer ball instead of his plastic one. But [...]

HUTCHINS, Hazel Robyn has a quest when she goes to summer camp -- she wants to see a bear and impress her friends with the story of her adventure. Although [...]

THOMPSON, Margaret (A) Life at the New Caledonia trading post of Fort St. James in the 1820s was rough and tedious, as traders laboured in the rhythm of each season's [...]

SCHWARTZ, Ellen (A-G) Jesse, the title character, has no interest in his family background until he has to write a report on it for school. In the attic he finds [...]

HUNTER, Dawn & Karen Hunter (E) I found this to be an interesting book about the life of an average ten year old child. It highlighted the daily life of [...]

BELLINGHAM, Brenda In the school play, the height of the lead player is an issue. To rectify the situation, the teacher switches the parts the students Lilly and Minna play [...]

STAUNTON, Ted Morgan's Secret Illustrated by Bill Slavin. 0-88780-494-2 (pbk.), 0-88780-495-0 (bound) Morgan is entrusted with his best friend's secret. The secret accidentally comes out when Morgan is pressured by [...]

WILSON, Budge Duff loved to imagine things and tell stories, so no one believed him when he said there was a monkey in his barn. The monkey hid whenever others [...]

DOWNIE, Mary Alice (G) The First Flight Series features top Canadian children's writers, including Kenneth Oppel, Celia Godkin and Maryann Kovalski. Titles are available in four levels ranging from beginning-reader [...]

TROTTIER, Maxine (G) The author's notes explain the mixture of history, family heritage, and fiction that she has woven into this novel. (G) Good, even great at times, generally [...]

MACGREGOR, ROY (A) This paperback book is about a Canadian junior hockey team who travel to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup peewee tournament in July. They do not [...]

WALTERS, Eric (G) The plot quickly picks up speed when young Thomas accidentally comes upon some American soldiers. The soldiers are attempting to rob the local general store. Thomas' quick [...]

GAUTHER, Gilles Since his big, old dog died, Carl has shared his friend Gory's timid, scraggy, little dog, Dumpling. Carl likes Dumpling but the memory of his own beloved pet [...]

VAN SANDWYK, Charles (P) This is the ideal gift for a doting aunt or grandmother to give to a young girl, who has an interest in fairies. As the advertising [...]

LITTLE, Jean (A) The first chapter of Jean Little's latest novel involves the reader directly in the plight of Willow Wind Jones, 10 years old, abandoned by her drug-addicted mother, [...]

RICHMOND, Sandra (A) Steven Edward's can't believe his bad luck - instead of playing hockey for the West Vancouver Peewees, he's stuck with being a defenseman for the B team! [...]

LEBLANC, Leo Maddie feels that no one at home understands her and at school things are no better. Even her grandmother, her usual support, seems to have abandoned her. Maddie [...]

PLANTE, Raymond Marilou and her classmates are putting on a play based on the fable by La Fontaine about a grasshopper and an ant. She not only practices her part [...]

GUEST, Jacqueline (G) Matthew Eagletail's family has just undergone a major change. His First Nations mother has remarried a white man named Gordon Thoreau. All of a sudden Matthew has [...]

CITRA, Becky (E) In 1835, Ellie, Max, and their father leave England to start a new life in Upper Canada. Once there, father leaves the children with another family while [...]