March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Erik, an Icelandic sheep with red wool, arrives at the sheep farm one day. After listening to a little girl’s stories about the Vikings, he starts to imagine that he is Erik the Viking Sheep, ... Read More »
One night, Kirsten’s mother wakes up in labour, yelling, “I’m having a baby, I’m having a baby.” Kirsten’s parents get lost on the way to the hospital, and her mother gives birth at the zoo. ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In 1883, when Willa Cather was nine years old, her family moved from Virginia to an isolated Nebraska farm on the Divide, a broad plateau between the Little Blue and Republican rivers. This long, uncomfortable ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Sometime around 1400, Italian painters discovered linear perspective. This literally changed the way people saw, allowing the artist to blur the distinction between a surface plane and three-dimensional space. Suddenly the world could be represented ... Read More »
March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help
Where Am I? presents a general overview of the development of navigation and map-making from the earliest maps on bark to the Global Positioning System. The text is clear, concise, and readable, and the author ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Robert Fulford noted a few months back that a lump of Toronto writers – Ondaatje, Michaels – place their narratives amid the concrete pylons and thick sumacs of the city’s ravines. Add Carole Corbeil. In ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Ford Madox Ford began drinking wine seriously when he was eight; Colette when she was 11. Tony Aspler, Canada’s best known wine writer and educator, was bribed by his foster mother with grapes at age ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink
Andrew Sarlos, financier, friend of tycoons, and benefactor of his native Hungary, died in March this year, his final testament a book of gloomy prophecy. In it, he forecasts that the roaring stock markets of ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
To be an orphan in the late 1800s was a bleak fate indeed. Dressed in the workhouse uniform that proclaimed your state to the world, you were expected to express gratitude to your keepers while ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Lesley Choyce, an accomplished Nova Scotian writer for adults and young people, turns his hand to chapter books in Pottersfield’s new reading series of first novels for kids. In this unlikely, fast-moving tale, pre-pubescent Fred ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction