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Summer 2005
School’s out, but the reading’s just starting!

feature

Kids books provide all year fun!
The final class bell may have rung for the year, but there’s plenty of reading to be done. This Summer, Prairie books NOW takes a look at a crop of kids books from the prairies. Class dismissed, let the reading begin.

Hair raising: Wanda never has a bad hair day
“I hope that they will learn that it is okay to be different, and to feel good about themselves even when others tease or don’t approve of the way they look.”
Wanda and the Wild Hair
Barbara Azore
illustrated by Georgia Graham
Tundra Books
$22.99 hc, 32 pages
ISBN 0-88776-717-6

Scary stuff: Alberta writer serves up chills for young audiences
“I do think ghost stories are a legitimate way to look at our history through folklore.”
Animal Phantoms: True Ghost Stories
Ghost Riders: True Stories of Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Horribly Haunted Houses: True Ghost Stories
Barbara Smith
Ghost House Books
$9.95 pb, 144 pages each
Animal Phantoms: True Ghost Stories
ISBN 1-894877-52-7
Ghost Riders: True Stories of Planes, Trains and Automobiles
ISBN 1-894877-56-X
Horribly Haunted Houses: True Ghost Stories
ISBN 1-894877-54-3

Girl power: Strong female characters prominent in Matas’s two new books
“Watch out Hollywood—here comes Rosie! And author Carol Matas!”
Action!
Carol Matas
Key Porter Books
$14.95 pb, 128 pages
ISBN 1-55263-678-X
The Dark Clone
Carol Matas
Scholastic Canada Ltd.
$6.99 pb, 144 pages
ISBN 0-439-96099-1

What big eyes they have: Saskatchewan writer celebrates wolves
“Yellowstone is a pilgrimage for geologists—our Mecca.”
Lupé: A Wolf Pup’s First Year
Wild Beginnings 2
Rebecca L. Grambo
photographs by Daniel J. Cox
Whitecap Books
$14.95 pb, 48 pages
ISBN 1-55285-611-9

Oh la la! A Poodle makes itself at home in Paris
“A home…isn’t just the kind of place it is; it’s the people who like you.”
A Poodle in Paris
story and songs by Connie Kaldor
illustrated by Fil & Julie
The Secret Mountain
$24.99 hc, 36 pages
CD included
ISBN 2-923163-12-5

India Sophia in Wonderland: A little girl has some Curious Adventures
“I was constantly surprised with myself that I was writing a book and I kept wondering where it all came from.”
The Curious Adventures of India Sophia
Angela Stewart
River Books
$14.95 pb. 145 pages
ISBN 1-895836-78-6

To be loved: Carmen wants what all of us do
“I strongly believe that when you write for young people you’re talking about the same themes, the same human problems.”
Carmen
Carole Fréchette
translated by Susan Ouriou
Red Deer Press
$16.95 hc, 112 pages
ISBN 0-88995-322-8

Cockadoodle doo! A Rooster gets a wake-up call
“There is so much more to young people than meets the eye.”
Rooster
Don Trembath
Orca Book Publishers
$9.95 pb, 200 pages
ISBN 1-55143-261-7

fiction

Lonely no more: New life for an “old” book
“There was a small fear that they would be looking at me with quizzical faces, but I should have trusted both the book and readers more than that.”
Lonesome Hero
Fred Stenson
introduction by Mark Anthony Jarman
Brindle & Glass
$19.95 pb, 180 pages
ISBN 1-897142-03-X

Casualties of war: Bergen takes readers to Vietnam
“Perhaps it was my age when the war was prevalent in the news and, later, the country and the war took on mythological proportions.”
The Time in Between
David Bergen
McClelland & Stewart
$34.99 hc, 288 pages
ISBN 0-7710-1178-4

Cooked! Westergard carves up Mother Goose
“There’s nothing more authentic than time.”
Mother Goose Eggs: sunnyside up
Jim Westergard
The Porcupine’s Quill
$16.95 pb, 50 pages
ISBN 0-88984-269-8

Talking trash on celebrity: Garbage Head shows there’s no message in the media
“The speed with which fickle celebrity worshippers shift their alliances is something I wanted to touch upon.”
Garbage Head
Christopher Willard
Esplanade Books/Véhicule Press
$18.00 pb, 160 pages
ISBN 1-55065-206-0

non-fiction

Roads less taken: Traveling with Margaret Laurence, Mina Hubbard and Anna Jameson
“They are experiencing what it’s like to be a woman traveling alone in a different culture, someone of a different culture or race than her traveling companions.”
Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel
Wendy Roy
McGill-Queen’s University Press
$44.95 hc, 296 pages
ISBN 0-77352-866-0

One Stone at a time: An introduction to prairie archaeology
“The sites are so bloody marvelous, they should be shared.”
Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites on the Canadian Plains
Liz Bryan
Heritage House
$24.95 pb, 176 pages
ISBN 1-894384-90-3

That’s typical: Jake MacDonald knows “guy stuff” happens
“If you travel a long way from your comfortable little home, stuff happens.”
With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy
Jake MacDonald
$22.95 pb, 176 Pages
Greystone Books
ISBN 1-55365-066-2

More than wheat: Saskatchewan rife with athletic achievement
“We might not be the biggest or the best, but we’ll go about our business as if we are.”
Saskatchewan Sports Legends: One Hundred Years of Athletic Distinction
John Chaput
foreword by Gordie Howe
Johnson Gorman Publishers
$37.95 hc, 336 pages
ISBN 0-921835-72-8

poetry

From Athabasca to Wetaskawin: Poetry anthology pays homage to all things Alberta
“I’m impressed by the diversity of the province, its landscapes, its poets.”
Writing the Terrain:
Travelling through Alberta with the Poets
edited by Robert Stamp
University of Calgary Press
$29.95 pb, 247 pages
ISBN 1-55238-136-6