★ Fox Walked Alone

Picture book illustration can, at its finest, transport you right into the heart of a story’s emotion and momentum. How anyone can achieve that transmogrification with the lumpish medium of Plasticine is an artistic mystery. ... Read More »

December 4, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer

By Dr. Marla Shapiro

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

Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914–1939

By Steve Hewitt

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

The Lesley Stowe Fine Foods Cookbook

By Lesley Stowe

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

The Friends of Meager Fortune

By David Adams Richards

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

The Fearsome Particles

By Trevor Cole

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

Hitch

By Matthew Holmes

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

★ Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996–2006

By George Bowering

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 Birdman

By Veronika Martenova Charles; Annouchka Gravel Galouchko & Stéphan Daigle

The first thing that must be said about The Birdman is that the illustrations, by Montrealers Annouchka Gravel Galouchko and her partner, Stéphan Daigle, are gorgeous. With intricate Gustav Klimt-style patterns filling every brilliantly coloured ... Read More »

October 2, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Other Side of the Bridge

By Mary Lawson

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

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