February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Information and stories about the habits and antics of animals fascinate young children. These picture books, featuring big cats in their natural settings, will intrigue and delight preschoolers and primary readers. The first title is ... Read More »
Information and stories about the habits and antics of animals fascinate young children. These picture books, featuring big cats in their natural settings, will intrigue and delight preschoolers and primary readers. The first title is ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Writers like Lola Lemire Tostevin resist the ordinary and predictable in sentences and plots. While she hasn’t sold a zillion books, Tostevin has enjoyed a fine reputation as a thinking, feeling, inventive crafter of fiction ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
In his other incarnation, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Wayne Bartlett’s most popular song chronicles the closure of the Newfoundland fishery. In Louder than the Sea, his first novel, he tackles similarly political subjects: the necessity of the ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Rick Maddocks’ impressive talent isn’t necessarily in telling stories – the five interconnected tales of Sputnik Diner are carefully crafted, but are often preoccupied with plodding exposition. Like Alice Munro, whose works share the common ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
In many ways, Kim Echlin’s second novel continues the themes of her first: Elephant Winter set the progress of a mother’s death against the incongruous backdrop of elephants in an Ontario winter. In that book ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
In the film Apocalypse Now – which functions as a backdrop to one of the stories in this collection – the jungle starts to pick off the increasingly delirious Yanks as they journey upriver, turning ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Life Without Mooch is one of four new Formac books, each about characters familiar to readers of the series called First Novels: Maddie (Maddie Wants New Clothes), Marilou (Marilou’s Long Nose), Fred (Fred’s Midnight Prowler), ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
In “Unless the Eye Catch Fire,” the last and best story of P.K. Page’s A Kind of Fiction, an avid gardener and sometime journal writer is possessed by a strangely calm end-of-world vision that enables ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
How tidy is history? It’s a question that every writer of historical fiction must contemplate, especially those who write for the young, for whom the impulse to narrative neatness is strong. The olden-days books that ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction