The Unknown Soldier. Scolastic Canada, 2008. ISBN
978-0-439-93558-6 (also available in French)
Details about fallen soldiers make headlines nearly every day. However, thousands of unidentified young men who served in conflicts in the last century received a different type of recognition. The Unknown Soldier shows how many “unknowns” from around the world have been honoured—in memorials, tombs and monuments—by their countries.
978-0-439-93558-6 (also available in French)
Details about fallen soldiers make headlines nearly every day. However, thousands of unidentified young men who served in conflicts in the last century received a different type of recognition. The Unknown Soldier shows how many “unknowns” from around the world have been honoured—in memorials, tombs and monuments—by their countries.
The book offers fascinating information about unknown soldiers from many countries, including Canada, the United States, Britain, France, Belgium, Russia, Greece, Italy, Japan, Iraq, Australia, and New Zealand. Additional sections reveal how an American and a Canadian unknown have now been identified using DNA evidence and explain the symbolism seen on tombs. With incredible archival photos, as well as poems, coins, medals, and postcards, this informative historical book has appeal for readers of all ages.
A companion book to the author’s earlier titles, In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae, and Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion.
What am I? Illustrated by Jennifer Herbert. An introduction to non-fiction/information books for children in grades Kindergarten
through Grade 3. Tundra Books, 2007. ISBN 0-88776-812-5
What Am I? is an absorbing guessing game for very young children. Large, simple text offers clues to riddles on each double-page spread. Whimsical illustrations contain correct answers along with several false leads. Little ones will enjoy using their powers of deduction before flipping the page to see if they have guessed correctly. What Am I? is sure to sharpen observation skills, while imparting facts about familiar objects found in everyday experiences. Here is a bright, bold picture book that will call clever little readers back time and time again.
An introduction to non-fiction/information books for children in grades Kindergarten through Grade 3.
What Am I? is an absorbing guessing game for very young children. Large, simple text offers clues to riddles on each double-page spread. Whimsical illustrations contain correct answers along with several false leads. Little ones will enjoy using their powers of deduction before flipping the page to see if they have guessed correctly. What Am I? is sure to sharpen observation skills, while imparting facts about familiar objects found in everyday experiences. Here is a bright, bold picture book that will call clever little readers back time and time again.
An introduction to non-fiction/information books for children in grades Kindergarten through Grade 3.
10th Anniversary Edition---In Flanders Fields: The Story of the
Poem by John McCrae, illus by Janet Wilson, introduction by Prof. Ron Jobe; Fitzhenry
& Whiteside (Canada and U.S.) 1-55005-144-X (hc), 2005, 36pp.
A special edition of this award-winning title. New cover art and introduction. Please see the Flanders entry below for further description and a list of awards.
Suitable for ages 10 through adult.
A special edition of this award-winning title. New cover art and introduction. Please see the Flanders entry below for further description and a list of awards.
Suitable for ages 10 through adult.
I Remember Korea: Veterans Tell Their Stories of the Korean War, 1950-53 ; with a foreword by Russell Freedman. Clarion Books (U.S.) and Fitzhenry & Whiteside
(Canada), 0-6181-7740-X (Clarion hc), 1-55005-092-3 (Fitzhenry hc), 1-55005-095-8 (Fitzhenry pb), 2003. 136 pp
Vivid first-person accounts from thirty-two men and women who were part of the U.S. and Canadian forces in Korea during the war. The veterans in this book represent a variety of service areas, such as medical, supplies, infantry, and naval. Their sometimes grim, sometimes lighthearted recollections are illustrated with their own personal photographs. Also included: timeline, glossary, bibliography, Internet resources, and index.
Suitable for ages 10 through adult.
2003/4 Junior Library Guild selection
Vivid first-person accounts from thirty-two men and women who were part of the U.S. and Canadian forces in Korea during the war. The veterans in this book represent a variety of service areas, such as medical, supplies, infantry, and naval. Their sometimes grim, sometimes lighthearted recollections are illustrated with their own personal photographs. Also included: timeline, glossary, bibliography, Internet resources, and index.
Suitable for ages 10 through adult.
2003/4 Junior Library Guild selection
America Votes: How Our President Is Elected; illus by Steve Bjorkman, Kids Can Press (U.S. and Canada), 1-55337-086-4 (hc), 1-55337-087-2 (pb), 2003. 64 pp.
As presidential election 2008 looms, hit the campaign trail with America Votes and read about primaries, party conventions, the race for votes, and the final count at the polls. Read about the long, hard battle to guarantee all Americans the right to vote, how elephants and donkeys figure in politics, how sound bites, spin, and sound bites work, and what young readers can do to prepare for their first voting experience at age eighteen. Includes 2004 election.
Full-color illustrations throughout; glossary of terms and index included. Suitable for ages 10 through adult; especially useful for adults who will be first-time voters, as well as those for whom English is a second language. A family book. Can be used with Canada Votes: How We Elect Our Government (Kids Can Press) for comparative studies.
As presidential election 2008 looms, hit the campaign trail with America Votes and read about primaries, party conventions, the race for votes, and the final count at the polls. Read about the long, hard battle to guarantee all Americans the right to vote, how elephants and donkeys figure in politics, how sound bites, spin, and sound bites work, and what young readers can do to prepare for their first voting experience at age eighteen. Includes 2004 election.
Full-color illustrations throughout; glossary of terms and index included. Suitable for ages 10 through adult; especially useful for adults who will be first-time voters, as well as those for whom English is a second language. A family book. Can be used with Canada Votes: How We Elect Our Government (Kids Can Press) for comparative studies.
Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes: Stories From Canada’s British War
Brides, illus with b/w photos, McClelland & Stewart, 0-7710-3535-7 (pb), 0-7710-3536-5 (hc), 2002
Following the Second World War (1939-1945), nearly 48,000 British war brides, married to Canadian servicemen during the war years, arrived in Canada with their 22,000 children. The brides became the largest immigrant group to arrive in Canada and they brought new customs, language, and an intense commitment to their adopted land.
Readers will meet more than forty of these women and learn their stories of joy and hardship, sorrow and good humor. The book is illustrated with photographs from the women’s personal scrapbooks and will also find quotes from period documents issued by the Canadian government—for better or for worse.
This title is suitable for adults and high school readers.
Following the Second World War (1939-1945), nearly 48,000 British war brides, married to Canadian servicemen during the war years, arrived in Canada with their 22,000 children. The brides became the largest immigrant group to arrive in Canada and they brought new customs, language, and an intense commitment to their adopted land.
Readers will meet more than forty of these women and learn their stories of joy and hardship, sorrow and good humor. The book is illustrated with photographs from the women’s personal scrapbooks and will also find quotes from period documents issued by the Canadian government—for better or for worse.
This title is suitable for adults and high school readers.
Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion, illus with full color photos,
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 0-7737-3319-1 (hc), 1-55005-146-6 (pb), 2001
Following the publication of my book about “In Flanders Fields,” I received letters from readers and educators asking for more information about the First World War. Poppies is the result: a book that provides more information about the Great War (1914-1918. Nearly two hundred pieces of archival material from the war years illustrate this album-formatted book. Readers will learn about a soldier’s training, life on the homefront, and how a child’s world was changed by war. Medicine, food, weaponry, books, and the stories of men who did and did not return are included.
2002 Pennsylvania School Librarians Assoc Top Ten (or so) YA Titles
2002 Pennsylvania School Librarians Assoc Top Forty YA Nonfiction Titles
2002 The Year’s Best (Resource Links)
2002 Information Book Award (Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada)
2002 Notable Non-fiction (Canadian Library Association)
2001 Alcuin Society Third Prize Design Award—Books for Children
2001 Quill & Quire—Five Best Children’s Books of the Year
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Following the publication of my book about “In Flanders Fields,” I received letters from readers and educators asking for more information about the First World War. Poppies is the result: a book that provides more information about the Great War (1914-1918. Nearly two hundred pieces of archival material from the war years illustrate this album-formatted book. Readers will learn about a soldier’s training, life on the homefront, and how a child’s world was changed by war. Medicine, food, weaponry, books, and the stories of men who did and did not return are included.
2002 Pennsylvania School Librarians Assoc Top Ten (or so) YA Titles
2002 Pennsylvania School Librarians Assoc Top Forty YA Nonfiction Titles
2002 The Year’s Best (Resource Links)
2002 Information Book Award (Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada)
2002 Notable Non-fiction (Canadian Library Association)
2001 Alcuin Society Third Prize Design Award—Books for Children
2001 Quill & Quire—Five Best Children’s Books of the Year
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant Life, illus with photos by Arlene Alda and archival photos; Tundra Books, 0-88776-580-7 (pb), 2001
While this title stands on its own, it also serves as a companion book to Pier 21: Gateway of Hope. As in Pier 21, immigration from Europe is the subject. Readers will ‘meet’ a number of immigrant families who lived in a tenement building at 97 Orchard Street in New York City. The building is now the home of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Material introduced includes how the immigrants arrived in the United States, how they managed to survive in horrible conditions, and what the tenements of the city were truly like.
Arlene Alda’s contemporary photographs of the tenement building discussed balance a collection of historical illustrations from the early 1900s.
2002 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children's Book Centre)
While this title stands on its own, it also serves as a companion book to Pier 21: Gateway of Hope. As in Pier 21, immigration from Europe is the subject. Readers will ‘meet’ a number of immigrant families who lived in a tenement building at 97 Orchard Street in New York City. The building is now the home of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Material introduced includes how the immigrants arrived in the United States, how they managed to survive in horrible conditions, and what the tenements of the city were truly like.
Arlene Alda’s contemporary photographs of the tenement building discussed balance a collection of historical illustrations from the early 1900s.
2002 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children's Book Centre)
Pier 21: Gateway of Hope, illus with b/w photos; Tundra Books, 0-88776-517-3 (pb), 2000
Between 1928 and 1971, Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the gateway of Canada. As the landing port for immigrants, it greeted more than one million new Canadians. It also saw many Canadians leave, including nearly 400,000 soldiers who sailed overseas during the Second World War.
This is the story of Pier 21 and the many people who passed through it, the war brides and their children, the returning service members, and the refugees from war-torn Europe and beyond. It examines the importance of Canada’s “Ellis Island” and its role today as an historical center.
Illustrated with over 80 black and white archival photographs.
Honour Book—2001 Norma Fleck Award for Non-fiction
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
2001 Honour Book (Canadian Children’s Literature Roundtables)
The Year’s Best 2000 (Resource Links/Assoc. for Teacher-Librarianship)
Between 1928 and 1971, Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the gateway of Canada. As the landing port for immigrants, it greeted more than one million new Canadians. It also saw many Canadians leave, including nearly 400,000 soldiers who sailed overseas during the Second World War.
This is the story of Pier 21 and the many people who passed through it, the war brides and their children, the returning service members, and the refugees from war-torn Europe and beyond. It examines the importance of Canada’s “Ellis Island” and its role today as an historical center.
Illustrated with over 80 black and white archival photographs.
Honour Book—2001 Norma Fleck Award for Non-fiction
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
2001 Honour Book (Canadian Children’s Literature Roundtables)
The Year’s Best 2000 (Resource Links/Assoc. for Teacher-Librarianship)
High Flight: A Story of World War II, illus by Michael Martchenko; Tundra Books, 0-88776-469-X (hc), 1999
Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John Magee Jr., was only nineteen years old when he wrote the poem “High Flight” in 1941. Born in Shanghai and educated at Rugby School in England, Magee showed early promise as a poet. Impatient to take part in the war raging in Europe, American citizen Magee gave up a place at Yale University to enlist in the RCAF. Not long after writing “High Flight,” John Magee was killed in an air accident in Britain.
Since its publication in 1941, “High Flight” has become the anthem for all who love to fly. The text includes Magee’s life, how a pilot trained, and history of the war itself. A fitting tribute to the airmen, indeed all veterans, of the Second World War.
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Outstanding Choice 2000 (Parents Council, U.S.)
Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John Magee Jr., was only nineteen years old when he wrote the poem “High Flight” in 1941. Born in Shanghai and educated at Rugby School in England, Magee showed early promise as a poet. Impatient to take part in the war raging in Europe, American citizen Magee gave up a place at Yale University to enlist in the RCAF. Not long after writing “High Flight,” John Magee was killed in an air accident in Britain.
Since its publication in 1941, “High Flight” has become the anthem for all who love to fly. The text includes Magee’s life, how a pilot trained, and history of the war itself. A fitting tribute to the airmen, indeed all veterans, of the Second World War.
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Outstanding Choice 2000 (Parents Council, U.S.)
The Legend of the Panda, illus by Song Nan Zhang; Tundra Books, 0-88776-421-5 (hc), 0-88776-474-6 (pb), 1998
How did the panda come to have its distinctive back-and-white coat? This adaptation of a Chinese folktale is a story of love, bravery and the selflessness of a young shepherdess. Retold and augmented with fascinating factual information about panda bears and the world’s efforts to save them.
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
How did the panda come to have its distinctive back-and-white coat? This adaptation of a Chinese folktale is a story of love, bravery and the selflessness of a young shepherdess. Retold and augmented with fascinating factual information about panda bears and the world’s efforts to save them.
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Circus: An Album, illus with full color materials; Groundwood Books, 0-88899-292-0 (hc), 0-7894-2661-7 (pb), 1997
The circus is in town! This book provides a glimpse of the earliest days of this spectacle—the Roman connection, the medieval street performers, the development of traveling wagon shows—and the evolution of recent shows like Cirque du Soleil.
Here readers will discover daily life aboard a circus train, the music, costumes, clowns, and Jumbo the elephant. There is also the corporate side of the circus—the politics, the exhibition of “freaks,” and the spectre of dishonesty and immorality that has dogged it since the early days.
Lavishly illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs, paintings, postcards and paraphernalia.
1998 Voya Outstanding Titles (Voice of Youth Advocates)
1998 Top 100 Books (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
1998 Best of the Best List (Chicago Public Library)
1998 Best Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)
1997 Best Books (Ontario Library Association)
1997 Canadian Library Association Notable Books-Non-fiction
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
The circus is in town! This book provides a glimpse of the earliest days of this spectacle—the Roman connection, the medieval street performers, the development of traveling wagon shows—and the evolution of recent shows like Cirque du Soleil.
Here readers will discover daily life aboard a circus train, the music, costumes, clowns, and Jumbo the elephant. There is also the corporate side of the circus—the politics, the exhibition of “freaks,” and the spectre of dishonesty and immorality that has dogged it since the early days.
Lavishly illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs, paintings, postcards and paraphernalia.
1998 Voya Outstanding Titles (Voice of Youth Advocates)
1998 Top 100 Books (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
1998 Best of the Best List (Chicago Public Library)
1998 Best Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)
1997 Best Books (Ontario Library Association)
1997 Canadian Library Association Notable Books-Non-fiction
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Silent Night: The Song From Heaven, illus with papercuts by Nelly and Ernst Hofer; Tundra Books, 0-88776-395-2 (hc), 0-88776-434-7 (pb), 1997
As amazing as it seems, one of the world’s best-loved Christmas carols may have been written because of ravenous mice! Right before Christmas, 1818, in a church in the small town of Oberndorf, Austria, the mice were so hungry they chewed a hole in the church organ’s leather bellows. Time for Mass was approaching—what would be done?
That evening “Stille Nacht,” known as “The Song From Heaven,” was born. Today it is sung around the world in nearly one hundred languages.
This book presents the story of the carol, including its use during war and peace. Intricate scherenschnitte (cut paper art) illustrations accompany the text.
1998 Alcuin Society First Prize Design Award-Books for Children
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Outstanding Choice 2000 (Parents Council, U.S.)
As amazing as it seems, one of the world’s best-loved Christmas carols may have been written because of ravenous mice! Right before Christmas, 1818, in a church in the small town of Oberndorf, Austria, the mice were so hungry they chewed a hole in the church organ’s leather bellows. Time for Mass was approaching—what would be done?
That evening “Stille Nacht,” known as “The Song From Heaven,” was born. Today it is sung around the world in nearly one hundred languages.
This book presents the story of the carol, including its use during war and peace. Intricate scherenschnitte (cut paper art) illustrations accompany the text.
1998 Alcuin Society First Prize Design Award-Books for Children
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Outstanding Choice 2000 (Parents Council, U.S.)
Amazing Grace: The Story of the Hymn, illus by Janet Wilson; Tundra Books, 0-88776-389-8 (hc), 0-88776-390-1 (pb), 1997
For many listeners around the world there is no sweeter sound than this beautiful hymn. The hymn’s composer, John Newton, led a successful life as a seafaring trader, sailing from Liverpool to Africa and on to Antigua. His cargo was a lucrative one, for he traded in human beings during the height of the slave trade. One night, a storm raged and Newton’s ship was almost lost. He prayed that if only salvation would come to “a wretch like me,” he would leave the slave trade and work toward its abolition.
That night was a turning point in Newton’s life. He later became an ardent abolitionist and a minister. But his greatest legacy is “Amazing Grace.” This book provides an introduction to the history of slavery, and contains the original text of the hymn, music, and map endpapers.
Best Books of 1997 (Quill & Quire)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
For many listeners around the world there is no sweeter sound than this beautiful hymn. The hymn’s composer, John Newton, led a successful life as a seafaring trader, sailing from Liverpool to Africa and on to Antigua. His cargo was a lucrative one, for he traded in human beings during the height of the slave trade. One night, a storm raged and Newton’s ship was almost lost. He prayed that if only salvation would come to “a wretch like me,” he would leave the slave trade and work toward its abolition.
That night was a turning point in Newton’s life. He later became an ardent abolitionist and a minister. But his greatest legacy is “Amazing Grace.” This book provides an introduction to the history of slavery, and contains the original text of the hymn, music, and map endpapers.
Best Books of 1997 (Quill & Quire)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Postcards Talk!, illus by Mark Thurman; Pembroke Publishing, 1-55138-033-1 (pb), 0-88776-390-1 (pb), 1997
The fascinating history of postcards and creative how-to’s for using old postcards and making new ones. Full of interesting trivia. Readers learn how to make their own cards, folding postcards and albums, as well as how to create codes, send secret messages, and use unusual visual techniques. Once bitten by the “postcard bug,” many young readers will find, make and use postcards more than ever.
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
The fascinating history of postcards and creative how-to’s for using old postcards and making new ones. Full of interesting trivia. Readers learn how to make their own cards, folding postcards and albums, as well as how to create codes, send secret messages, and use unusual visual techniques. Once bitten by the “postcard bug,” many young readers will find, make and use postcards more than ever.
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae, illus by Janet Wilson; Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 0-7737-2991-7 (hc), 0-7737-5925-5 (pb), 1995
This book is a tribute to the famous poem, its creator, John McCrae, and to the poppy which has come to symbolize remembrance of the fallen in battle. Lines of the poem are interwoven with background information about the First World War, details of daily life in the trenches, accounts of poet-doctor John McCrae’s experiences in the field hospital and a description of the tragic circumstances that led to the writing of the poem in 1915. Paintings interpret the poem line by line. Archival materials also illustrate a text that is a moving testament for today’s readers of all ages.
1997 Red Cedar Award for Non-fiction, winner (The Young Readers’ Choice Awards Society of British Columbia)
Books for the Teen Age, 1997--(selected by New York Public Library)
1997 International Reading Association Teachers’ Choice Book
White Ravens 1997 selection (Internationale Jugendbibliothek/International Children’s Library, Munich)
1997 Regional Winner of the Silver Birch Award (Ontario Library Association)
1996 Information Book Award (Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada)
1996 Honour Book, Non-fiction (Canadian Library Association)
1996 Honour Book, text (Canadian Library Association)
1996 The Year’s Best (Resource Links)
1996 IODE Book Award (Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire- Toronto chapter)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
This book is a tribute to the famous poem, its creator, John McCrae, and to the poppy which has come to symbolize remembrance of the fallen in battle. Lines of the poem are interwoven with background information about the First World War, details of daily life in the trenches, accounts of poet-doctor John McCrae’s experiences in the field hospital and a description of the tragic circumstances that led to the writing of the poem in 1915. Paintings interpret the poem line by line. Archival materials also illustrate a text that is a moving testament for today’s readers of all ages.
1997 Red Cedar Award for Non-fiction, winner (The Young Readers’ Choice Awards Society of British Columbia)
Books for the Teen Age, 1997--(selected by New York Public Library)
1997 International Reading Association Teachers’ Choice Book
White Ravens 1997 selection (Internationale Jugendbibliothek/International Children’s Library, Munich)
1997 Regional Winner of the Silver Birch Award (Ontario Library Association)
1996 Information Book Award (Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada)
1996 Honour Book, Non-fiction (Canadian Library Association)
1996 Honour Book, text (Canadian Library Association)
1996 The Year’s Best (Resource Links)
1996 IODE Book Award (Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire- Toronto chapter)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Cowboy: A Kid’s Album, illus with full color materials; Groundwood Books, 1-55054-230-3 (hc), 1993
Cowboy celebrates the historical and contemporary cowboy and provides a close-up peek into his daily life, from his morning plate of prairie strawberries to his “thirty and found” at the end of the drive. Individual spreads explore the various aspects of the cowboy, from his mythic heights to his commercial use today—the grinding work, the folklore, the music, the language, the landscape, even the movies.
The text is accompanied by archival and contemporary photographs and paintings, as well as illustrations especially commissioned for this book.
1995 “Quick Picks for Young Adults” (American Library Association)
Top 10 Children’s Books of Distinction 1995--non-fiction (Hungry Mind Review)
1994 Notable Children’s Trade Book-Social Studies (Children’s Book Council)
1994 Notable Children’s Trade Book-Social Studies (National Council of Social Studies)
1994 Information Book Award (Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada)
1994 American Booksellers’ Pick of the Lists
1993 Notable Canadian Non-fiction for Children (Canadian Library Association)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Cowboy celebrates the historical and contemporary cowboy and provides a close-up peek into his daily life, from his morning plate of prairie strawberries to his “thirty and found” at the end of the drive. Individual spreads explore the various aspects of the cowboy, from his mythic heights to his commercial use today—the grinding work, the folklore, the music, the language, the landscape, even the movies.
The text is accompanied by archival and contemporary photographs and paintings, as well as illustrations especially commissioned for this book.
1995 “Quick Picks for Young Adults” (American Library Association)
Top 10 Children’s Books of Distinction 1995--non-fiction (Hungry Mind Review)
1994 Notable Children’s Trade Book-Social Studies (Children’s Book Council)
1994 Notable Children’s Trade Book-Social Studies (National Council of Social Studies)
1994 Information Book Award (Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada)
1994 American Booksellers’ Pick of the Lists
1993 Notable Canadian Non-fiction for Children (Canadian Library Association)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Canada Votes: How We Elect Our Government, illus by Craig Terlson; Kids Can Press, 1-55337-009-0 (pb) [new up-dated edition done about every two years since 1990]
Readers get a close-up look at the political process. The book explores all aspects of a Canadian federal election, from the day Parliament is dissolved to the day after the polls close. Starting in the late 1800s when voting took place at the local tavern, the book charts the evolution of federal elections to the present day.
Readers get a close-up look at the political process. The book explores all aspects of a Canadian federal election, from the day Parliament is dissolved to the day after the polls close. Starting in the late 1800s when voting took place at the local tavern, the book charts the evolution of federal elections to the present day.
Titles out of Print
Brain Quest Canada; Workman/Thomas Allen, 0-7611-1279-0 (1998 edition), 0-7611-2196-X (2000 edition).
Co-authored with Pat Hancock
Who was Canada’s first prime minister? What do you call an Inuit landmark made of stacked stones? In 1000 questions and answers through seven categories, Brain Quest Canada covers every aspect of Canadian history and culture from the First Nations to Celine Dion, including Sasquatch, Horseshoe Falls, the Poet of the Yukon, Nunavut, and of course, the Mounties. It’s all about Canada, it’s all about learning, and it’s all about fun.
Co-authored with Pat Hancock
Who was Canada’s first prime minister? What do you call an Inuit landmark made of stacked stones? In 1000 questions and answers through seven categories, Brain Quest Canada covers every aspect of Canadian history and culture from the First Nations to Celine Dion, including Sasquatch, Horseshoe Falls, the Poet of the Yukon, Nunavut, and of course, the Mounties. It’s all about Canada, it’s all about learning, and it’s all about fun.
Make Your Own Button Book, with Andrea Wayne von Konigslow, Somerville House, 1993
Readers learn how to produce theme buttons using different art techniques. Plenty of interesting and entertaining historical background, i.e. political campaign buttons is also provided.
Readers learn how to produce theme buttons using different art techniques. Plenty of interesting and entertaining historical background, i.e. political campaign buttons is also provided.
The Year I Was Born-1987, illus by Bill Slavin, Kids Can Press, 1994
The Year I Was Born-1988, illus by Bill Slavin, Kids Can Press, 1995
The Year I Was Born-1984, illus by Bill Slavin, Kids Can Press, 1995
The Year I Was Born-1988, illus by Bill Slavin, Kids Can Press, 1995
The Year I Was Born-1984, illus by Bill Slavin, Kids Can Press, 1995
Extra! Extra!: The Who, What, When, Where, and Why of Newspapers, illus by Bill Slavin; Orchard Books (U.S.), 0-531-07049-2 (pb), 199
Every minute of the every day, news is being made. Only hours after a major news event happens, we can read about it in the newspaper. How does the news travel so fast? Read all about the making of a newspaper—from the comics to the classifieds, reporters to editors, printing to delivery. Includes activities that recycle newspapers.
1994 Honour Book (Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Every minute of the every day, news is being made. Only hours after a major news event happens, we can read about it in the newspaper. How does the news travel so fast? Read all about the making of a newspaper—from the comics to the classifieds, reporters to editors, printing to delivery. Includes activities that recycle newspapers.
1994 Honour Book (Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
All About Niagara Falls, illus by Pat Cupples, Kids Can Press/William Morrow, 1988
1989 Notable Canadian Non-fiction for Children (Canadian Library Association)
1988 Best Books List (Ontario Library Association)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
1989 Notable Canadian Non-fiction for Children (Canadian Library Association)
1988 Best Books List (Ontario Library Association)
Our Choice selection (Canadian Children’s Book Centre)
Extra! Extra! [about Newspapers and their production], illus by Bill Slavin, Kids Can Press, 1993