February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The Miss Meow Pageant, the fifth book from Toronto writer and storyteller Richardo Keens-Douglas, is the story of Henrietta’s cat, Sparrow, one of the ugliest cats in the feline world. Things change for Sparrow when ... Read More »
In this latest book by Paul Yee, who chronicles the Chinese Canadian experience so well, Kai-ming, a seven-year-old newly immigrated from a Chinese village, befriends the ghost of seven-year-old Benjamin, who died in the same ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Despite its unprepossessing title, Vancouverite Michael David Kwan’s memoir, spanning the mid-1930s to the late ’40s, is an engrossing book. The son of a young Swiss woman (who quickly disappears from his life) and a ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
A decade ago, I suggested to my agent that I should do a book called “Eminent Canadians,” a Lytton Strachey-like job on the rich and powerful. Deflate the pompous and savage the powerful, in other ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
In this age of short attention spans and quick fixes, the short story should be more popular than it is with readers. But short story collections seldom put a gleam in the eye of publishers ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Elizabeth May, head of the Sierra Club of Canada, and Maude Barlow, chair of the citizen’s lobby group The Council of Canadians, have written an informative and sometimes shocking account of government bungling in regulating, ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
Calgary artist Hazel Litzgus has compiled a picture book memoir of her childhood on a Prairie farm. Organized into sections according to the seasons, the book uses her watercolour paintings as a stepping stone into ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
For most Christians, Christmas is dominated by tradition: above all by family gatherings complete with the decorated tree, dinner with all the trimmings, and presents. Margaret Laurence’s Christmas story, The Olden Days Coat, first published ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
For most Christians, Christmas is dominated by tradition: above all by family gatherings complete with the decorated tree, dinner with all the trimmings, and presents. Margaret Laurence’s Christmas story, The Olden Days Coat, first published ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The fall season heralds two new books from Robert Munsch, that fixture of Canadian children’s literature. Get Out of Bed!, Munsch’s latest, published by Scholastic, takes the idea of sleeping in to a whole new ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books