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100 Books for 100 Years of Children's Services - Part 9: 1990-1999
As the century draws to a close, writers and illustrators explore more sophisticated themes with stories that appeal to both children and adults. And then there was Harry Potter. Canadian children's literature comes of age. By Theo Heras, Mary Anne Cree, Mariella Bertelli and Martha Scott.
Just before Christmas, a supply plane delivers several "standing ups", or trees, to Repulse Bay, Nunavut. Peter and his friends don't know what they're for, but soon find an amusing use for them.
Images overlap, connecting four seemingly separate stories told simultaneously in this complex and humorous play on picture books.
Through the Depression, Bud has been in foster homes since his mother died. Some have been bad, but this last one was the worst. Now it's time for him to find out who the man is in the photograph that his mother kept.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm are three detectives with extraordinary powers. When the General's children disappear, these detectives are called on to solve the case in this adventure of hide-and-seek.
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At the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is given his life assignment - the "Receiver of Memory." Slowly Jonas begins to see that the idyllic life of his world is false and prohibitive.
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Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out on a perilous quest to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from gruesome experiments in the Far North, and to find out what "dust" has to do with it.
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Orphaned Harry Potter lives a boring and pathetic life with his bullying aunt, uncle and cousin until the day Hagrid bursts in to take Harry to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. To say that Harry's life is about to change is an understatement!
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Stanley Yelnats is wrongly convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers and sentenced to 18 months at the notorious Camp Green Lake. While discovering the true reason for why the boys are forced to dig holes all day long, Stanley also frees his family from a long-standing curse.
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Jeffrey Lionel Magee has had enough of his dysfunctional aunt and uncle's home. He runs away to Two Mills where, without even knowing it, he helps to bring the racially divided city together and becomes Maniac Magee, something of a legend.
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Shade's curiosity to see the sun sets off a series of catastrophes including the destruction of his bat colony's home.
Joseph's grandfather makes him a blanket. Over the years, the blanket is transformed into smaller articles of clothing as Joseph grows, until there is nothing left. What can come from nothing? Joseph has the answer.
Little Sam isn't sure he wants to jump into the water on his first visit to the sea. Exuberant big sister Stella reveals all its mysteries with reassuring and imaginative answers.
