July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
The Bluenose is a Canadian icon, the symbol of an age when schooners ruled the waves and were depended upon by many a Maritime family. In his latest book, Governor General’s Award winner Marq de ... Read More »
Dolly and Annie Watts – mother and daughter, respectively – are descended from chiefs of B.C.’s Gitk’san First Nation. From 1995 until earlier this year, they ran one of only two restaurants of its kind ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink
According to criminal justice consultant and youth gang expert Michael Chettleburgh, every Canadian city has, or will soon have, a problem with youth gangs. He shows us the statistics: 62 gangs, with over 1,100 members, ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Richard Cannings is one of those rare birds – a down-to-earth expert. Birders both experienced and novice are in good company with this inveterate and humorous naturalist, who shares his experiences and knowledge engagingly.The book’s ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
The dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 was followed not by a sudden flowering of democracy, but by the seizure of political and economic power by former Communist apparatchiks. Opposition to the new regimes by ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
A critic once reacted to the comprehensiveness of the title of Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by asking, “Why write the book?” At the opposite end of the scale, the ... Read More »
July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Making Bones Walk is the first full-length collection for Toronto poet Alex Boyd. It’s a promising debut, solid, trim, and occasionally arresting (especially “Twenty Three Minutes for Everything,” the one standout poem in the book), ... Read More »
July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Political proselytizing has been something of a vocation for Calgary-based writer and teacher Tom Wayman since the publication of his first book in 1973. In High Speed Through Shoaling Water, his 17th collection, Wayman cleaves ... Read More »
July 13, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Toronto writer and license plate buff Leonard Wise devotes himself to the weird and wonderful world of vanity license plates in this 64-page compendium of plate history, road-trip games, and notable examples of North American ... Read More »
June 26, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
In the final days of 1920, after a series of bloody Arab uprisings against the British occupiers of Mesopotamia (soon to be renamed Iraq), a frustrated Winston Churchill, then secretary of state for the colonies, ... Read More »
April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History