January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
The Stratford Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer, so books about its history are virtually guaranteed a good sale, even if they serve simply to decorate coffee tables as a sign of cultural ... Read More »
In the mid-1990s, former Toronto mayor and left-wing political columnist John Sewell conducted an indefatigable (but ultimately unsuccessful) campaign against the amalgamation of the city’s municipal governments. He peppered his criticism of the province’s proposal ... Read More »
January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
There is not a whiff of underpants or cute-bunnykins anthropomorphism about One Some Many, the first picture-book collaboration between the husband-and-wife team of author-illustrator Marthe Jocelyn (Hannah’s Collections) and visual artist Tom Slaughter. Indeed, this ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
The newest collaboration between husband-and-wife team Thompson and Spicer is delightful. Their wacky twist on the nursery rhyme The Grand Old Duke of York comes with lyrics and music; that’s apt, since the music of ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Author and musician Dave Bidini is single-handedly creating his own genre of sports book: the North-American-sport-in-a-strange-land category. In his last book, Tropic of Hockey, Bidini looked at how Canada’s national pastime is played in unusual ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
In a rare instance of form following function in the book world, Exact Fare Only 2 seems designed for the express purpose of being read on the subway, streetcar, or bus. Editor Ian Cockfield has ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
If there are any kinds of hazards, mishaps, prickly encounters, or bizarre turns of event that James Bartleman did not encounter during his 35-year career in Canada’s foreign service, it’s difficult to imagine what they ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
In his foreword to David Nunuk’s Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia ($49.95 cloth 1-55017-273-5, 122 pp., Harbour Publishing), editor Dave Jones describes the two traditional methods of photographing the province’s bountiful scenery. The first ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
Prominent bioethicist and prolific author M. Sara Rosenthal promises to distill the overwhelming abundance of diet information in The Skinny on Fat. Rosenthal wants to get to the bottom of “low-fat culture” and put readers ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
Given the vagaries of memory and historical record, there are bound to be gaps in any family history. For those with the resources and faculty, many of these gaps can be filled. Robert Calder, an ... Read More »
January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography