Children and YA Non-fiction

The Beothuk Saga

By Bernard Assiniwi ,Wayne Grady, trans.

In The Beothuk Saga, Cree author Bernard Assiniwi combines history, ethnology, and a multi-generational epic storyline to tell the story of Newfoundland’s now-extinct Beothuk people. In the Cree tradition, stories are not classified as “true” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Trade

By Fred Stenson

You’d never want to put the adjective “fair” in front of the kind of trade that Fred Stenson writes about in this absorbing historical novel. He’s concerned with the fur trade, in what is now ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

My Cross-country Checkup: Across Canada by Minivan, Through Space and Time

By Walter Stewart

Walter Stewart first travelled across the Trans-Canada Highway in 1964, for a series of stories in the Star Weekly. In My Cross-Country Checkup, Stewart and his wife, Joan – dryly referred to as “The Driver” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

100 Days in the Jungle

By Shawn Ohler and Vicki Hall

On Sept. 11 it will have been one year since seven Albertans and one American were kidnapped while working on an oil pipeline in Ecuador; they were held hostage for over three months. Edmonton journalists ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Flavours of Canada: A Celebration of the Finest Regional Foods

By Anita Stewart, Robert Wigington, photog.

A minor but long-lingering bookselling problem has finally been solved. The question of what to offer gift shoppers looking for attractive yet authoritative books on Canadian cuisine has long been met with helpless shrugs. But ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Man Who Lost Himself: The Terry Evanshen Story

By June Callwood

Man, interrupted: in July of 1988, the life of 44-year-old ex-CFL star Terry Evanshen took such an extraordinary turn that it would come to resemble an ancient myth, a legend of the gods’ rough intervention ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

By Witold Rybczynski

It started last year with a call from a New York Times editor with his eye on the millennium. Would Witold Rybczynski care to pen an essay celebrating the Best Tool of the last 1,000 ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

By Eric McCormack

The title of this novel (recycled from a 16th-century book by John Knox), an introductory note explains, is not to be interpreted as meaning a militant female troop. Rather, “regiment” means “magisterial rule.” We might ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The War in Heaven

By Kent Nussey

Kent Nussey’s new collection of stories, The War in Heaven, explores the emotional state of gender warfare from the male point of view. The seven short stories and one novella in the book are populated ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Best Canadian Stories 96

By Douglas Glover, ed.

The short story is not, despite reports, Canadian by birth or naturalization. Still, every so often you’ll hear us claiming custody, ready to point to some quasi-demographic mirage showing that Canadians produce more extraordinary writers ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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