Bibliography - War and Peace

Title: Almost a Lifetime
Author/Publication Information: John McMahon
Lantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books, 1995.
Age Group: Grade 9 - 13 / Ages 13 - Adult

Title: As Ever, Booky.
Author/Publication Information: Hunter, Bernice Thurman
Richmond Hill, Ont.:Scholastic-TAB, 1985. 152 p. [0-590-71547-7]
Additional Information: Third volume in a series about Booky.
Historical fiction. Reading level: 5. Interest level: 4-8.
Protagonist: adolescent girl.
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945. Depressions - 1929 - Canada. Family life.

Title: Blackouts to Bright Lights: Canadian War Bride Stories.
Author/Publication Information: Edited by Barbara Ladouceur and Phyllis Spence.
Vancouver : Ronsdale Press, c1995.
Grade/Age Level: Grade 9 - 13 / Ages 13 - Adult

Title: Blaine's Way.
Author/Publication Information: Hughes, Monica
Toronto, Ont.: Irwin Publishing, 1986. 215 p. [0-7725-1564-6]
Additional Information: Historical fiction. Reading level: 5. Interest level: 5-8.
Protagonist: adolescent boy.
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945. Depressions - 1929 - Canada. Dieppe Raid, 1942.

Title: Bravery.
Author/Publication Information: Hacker, Carlotta, 1931-
Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c1989.
64 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm.
Additional Infomation: Series: Canadian lives
Heroes--Canada--Biography--Juvenile literature

Title: Canada Remembers:
Vol. 1 - Turning the Tide: 1939 to D-Day.
Vol. 2 - The Liberators: D-Day to the Rhine.
Vol. 3 - Endings and Beginnings: 1945.
Additional Information: National Film Board of Canada, 1995. 3 hours (two 1/2 hour segments per volume), VHS, $49.95.
ISBN: 0-7722-064-2.
Grade/Age Level: Grades: 10 - 13 / Ages 14 - Adult.

Title: Canadian children's books on peace & conflict resolution : a resource guide
Publication Information: Toronto : Canadian Children's Book Centre, c1989.
18 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Title: Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice.
Author: Janet McNaughton.
Additional Information: Historical fiction 2. War stories.

Title: Good, Evil, Knowledge, Power : a Conversation Between Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman
Author/Additional Information:Nodelman, Perry.
1. Matas, Carol 1. Authorship 2. Evil 3. War stories 4. Good and evil Canadian Children's Literature 82 (1996), 56-68
Summary: In this interview conducted originally by fax, Perry Nodelman, who has collaborated with Carol Matas on two young adult fantasies, discusses with Carol the children's fiction she has written on her own. The conversation focuses on a variety of topics: Carol's reasons for choosing to write for children and her convictions about the kind of fiction children deserve to read, her ideas about the nature of good and evil, and her special interest in writing fiction about children who find themselves involved in the upheaval and tragedy of World War II.
Interview/Entrevue English/Anglais

Title: Hawk and Stretch.
Author/Publication Information: Hunter, Bernice Thurman.
Richmond Hill, Ont.: Scholastic Canada, 1993. 195 p. [0-590-74814-9]
Additional Information: Historical fiction. Reading level: 5. Interest level: 4-7.
Protagonist: boy.
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945. Multiculturalism. Friendship.

Title: High Flight.
Author/Linda Granfield.
McClelland & Stewart. 1999.
Additional Information: Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945.

Title: Hockeybat Harris.
Author/Publication Information: Bilson, Geoffrey.
Toronto, Ont.: Kids Can Press, 1984. 158 p. [0-919964-57-5]
Additional Information: Historical fiction. Reading level: 4. Interest level: 4-8.
Protagonist: adolescent boy.
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees. Saskatoon (Sask.). Friendship.

Title: In Flanders Fields: The story of the Poem by John McCrae
Author/Illustrator: Linda Granfield. Illustrated by Janet Wilson
Grade/Age Level: Grades 4 and Up / Ages 8 to Adult.

Title: 2000 Memories - Jason & The Memory Box
Author/Illustrator/Publication Information: Shelley Fiset. Illustrated by Aimée Chatelaine.
ISBN 0-662-28149-7.
Catalogue V32-83X1999E.
Veterans Affairs Canada
Grade/ Age Level: Grades 2 to 5.

Title: Just a Minute More: Glimpses of our Great Canadian Heritage.
Author/Publication Information: Marsha Boulton.
Toronto, ON: McArthur and Company, 1999. 215 p.
ISBN 1-55278-072-4.
Grade/ Age Level: Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up.

Title: The Lights Go On Again.
Author: Kit Pearson.
Additional Information: 1. Historical fiction 2. War stories

Title: Love-Lies-Bleeding
Author/Publication Information: Haworth-Attard, Barbara, 1953-
Montreal : Roussan, 1999.
Series: On time's wing
ISBN: 189618460X
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Canada--Juvenile fiction

Title: Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and The Great War 1914-1919
Author/Publication Information: Desmond Morton and J.L. Granatstein.
Toronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989.
320pp., cloth, $35.00.
ISBN 0-88619-209-9. CIP.
Grade/Age Level: Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up

Title: A Nation Forged In Fire: Canadians and The Second World War 1939-1945
Author/Publication Information: J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton.
Toronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989.
320pp., cloth, $35.00.
ISBN 0-88619-213-7. CIP.
Grade/Age Level: Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up

Title: The night voyagers.
Author/Publication Information: Kushner, Donn, 1927-
Toronto : Lester Pub., c1995.
220 p. ; 23 cm.

Title: No Man's Land
Author: Kevin Major
Additional Information: Historical fiction 2. War stories

Title: The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager's Story of War and Peace
Author: Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Grade/Age Level: Grades 5 - 10 / Ages 11 - 16

Title: One Village, One War: 1914-1945.
Author/Publication Information: Douglas How.
Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1995.
374pp, paper, S16.95.
ISBN 0-88999-563-X. No CIP.
Grade/Age Level: Grades 10 - 13 / Ages 14 - Adult.

Title: Over the top: An interactive adventure
http://warmuseum.ca/cwm/overtop/index_e.html
Author/Publication Information: Canadian War Museum. (January, 2004)

Title: Poetry anthology about war
Author/Publication Information: Ruggier, Sarah Therese, 1986-
1st ed. North Vancouver : Multicultural Books, 1997.
17 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN: 0968194818 (pbk.)

Title: The Sea Is at Our Gates: The History of The Canadian Navy.
Grade/Age Level: Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
Additional Information: The Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, 1990. 30 minutes, VHS.

Title: Ships of the Great Days.
Author: Joseph Schull.

Title: The Ship That Voted No and Other Stories of Ships and the Sea.
Author: Tony Keene
Grade/Age Level: Grade 7 - 13 / Ages 12 - Adult

Title: The Sky Is Falling.
Author/Publication Information: Pearson, Kit.
Markham, Ont.: Viking Kestrel, 1989. 248 p. [0-670-82849-1] Additional Information: Historical fiction. Reading level: 5. Interest level: 5-8.
Protagonist: girl, boy.
Subject headings: World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees. Brothers and sisters.

Title: Soldier Boys.
Author: David Richards.
Additional Information: Historical fiction 2. War stories

Title: Thirteen never changes.
Author/Pubication Information: Wilson, Budge
Richmond Hill, Ont. : Scholastic Canada, [1995], c1989. 152 p. ; 20 cm.
World War, 1939-1945. Canada- Halifax

Title: Through Footless Halls of Air: The Stories of a Few of the Many Who Failed to Return.
Author/Publication Information: Floyd Williston.
Burnstown, ON: General Store Publishing House, 1996. 311 p. ISBN 1-896182-44-5.
Grade/Age Level: Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up. Summary: This book chronicles the lives of six airmen from Atlantic Canada based in Britain who died during the war against Nazi Germany. Well illustrated, it provides a glimpse of war from a different perspective.

Title: Too young to fight : memories from our youth during World War II
Publication Information: Compiled by Priscilla Galloway.
Toronto : Stoddart, 1999. 207 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
Additional Information: Includes index.
Galloway, Priscilla, 1930-
1) World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.

Title: Watch for the Breaking of Day.
Author/Publication Information: Forcade, Robert J.
Markham, Ont.: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1986. 135 p.
Additional Information: Historical fiction.
Reading level: 6. Interest level: 6-10.
Protagonist: adolescent boy.

Title: What's the Matter Girl?
Author/Publication Information: Brochmann, Elizabeth.
New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row Publishers, 1980. 121 p. [0-06-020677-2]
Additional Information: Historical fiction.
Reading level: 5. Interest level: 7-10. Protagonist: adolescent girl.
Subject headings: Emotional problems of children. World War, 1939-1945. Brothers and sisters. British Columbia. Uncles.

Title: Winds through time : [an anthology of Canadian historical young adult fiction]
Publication Information: Edited by Ann Walsh.
1st ed. Vancouver : Beach Holme Pub., c1998.
Additional Information: Young adult fiction, Canadian (English)
Short stories, Canadian (English)
Canadian fiction (English) -- 20th century.

Canada and the Wars

1995 has seen many titles published that relate to the First or Second World Wars,and Canada's role in them -- in fact, the titles are still coming in, and so there will be more reviews yet to appear in CM. But this is a brief list of the what we've covered so far: