Here we go again. Five years after Larry Stevenson turned book retailing in Canada on its head by merging Coles with SmithBooks, Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman want to create an even larger bookselling behemoth ... Read More »
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, with fighting in Afghanistan and anthrax-tainted mail in the U.S., book-buyers showed themselves hungry for context. Titles like Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America ... Read More »
March 30, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
It’s time for me to come out of the reading closet. No, I’m not referring to a penchant for racy material. I’m talking about my philosophy of teaching reading. In one word, it’s balance. You ... Read More »
March 30, 2004
In Canadian children’s books, the most interesting works of 1998 came from YA fiction writers. New titles from established masters like Tim Wynne-Jones and Julie Johnston were joined on the shelves by accomplished novels from ... Read More »
March 30, 2004
With challenges to school books still common, the Book and Periodical Council has chosen 1999 Freedom to Read Week to issue a report card on book censorship in Canada. In it, a variety of educators, ... Read More »
March 30, 2004
American author Stephen King's latest novel is riding the bestseller lists on the strength of a "storm of the century" that takes place in Maine, but those words have another best-selling meaning for Canadians. The ... Read More »
March 30, 2004
It’s now circulating feverishly through the corridors of publishing power, but it first appeared at a simple Book Publishers' Professional Association panel discussion: a pile of photocopies stacked innocently on the registration table. BPPA molesshrill-crier-/> ... Read More »
March 30, 2004
Science fiction has had a love-hate relationship with educators for years. Those teachers who love it have used it mainly as a tool to encourage reading. Other teachers have employed examples from the genre to ... Read More »
March 30, 2004
Look at the back of Kathy Reichs’ 1997 bestseller Déjà Dead and you’ll find the usual orgy of superlative endorsements: Lowell Levine, William Rodriguez, Michael Baden, Edmund Donoghue, Judy Suchey – they all loved it. ... Read More »
March 30, 2004
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