January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Several years have passed since Martin O’Boy’s adventures in Boy O’Boy. For some reason, Martin is no longer living with his family on Ottawa’s Papineau Street but is instead with the grandfather of his neighbourhood ... Read More »
Children’s TV shows do not always translate well to print. Happily, the four books published under the Daniel Cook rubric have not only managed to survive the transition, they show a marked improvement upon the ... Read More »
January 8, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast CancerDr. Marla Shapiro; $29.95 cloth 0-00-200814-9, 300 pp., 5½ x 8½, HarperCollins Canada, Sept. Reviewed from advance reading copyThere are a few notables – sports personalities, actors, ... Read More »
November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
The idea of a Machiavellian police force, desperate to maintain its survival by searching out state enemies often exaggerated or even imagined, does not square with most images of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Yet ... Read More »
November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
A boom in fine dining in Vancouver over the past 15 years has spawned a small library of excellent cookbooks from master chefs like Rob Feenie, John Bishop, and Karen Barnaby. This fall, two more ... Read More »
November 6, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink
Though the last 25 years have seen enough social, economic, technological, and even ecological change to keep a small army of novelists busy, historical fiction has become almost a default setting for Canada’s best writers, ... Read More »
October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Do you know what liquid bandage is? You know – the gel formula that “fills in and protects skin cracks to reduce minor pain instantly”? You might need some familiarity with it in the early ... Read More »
October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Ask any old sailor worth his salt: the purpose of a hitch is to tie the best possible line – to wrap around an object and cinch down tight. Therein lies the aim of New ... Read More »
October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
George Bowering’s newest collection covers a decade of the Vancouver poet’s life and work. It was a tumultuous 10 years that saw the painful, lingering death of his wife of 37 years, Angela, his service ... Read More »
October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
The Other Side of the Bridge is an accomplished successor to Mary Lawson’s widely acclaimed first novel, Crow Lake. This new novel tells the story of the Dunn family. Its two boys, Arthur and Jake, ... Read More »
September 18, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels