October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
While trying to satisfy a magazine editor’s request for a story on mummies, science writer Heather Pringle ended up at the gloriously eccentric World Congress of Mummy Studies on the edge of a desolate Chilean ... Read More »
Start with Jeremy Papier, chef. He’s in his early thirties, with life coming at him, and fast. His restaurant, The Monkey’s Paw Bistro, is making a name for itself in Vancouver. He’s got ideas, energy, ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Writing a book about a political scandal comes with its own challenges, including the aggressive research involved and the process of rearranging those facts into a compelling narrative. Writing a book about a Canadian political ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
BOOK DESIGN TODAY is driven by magazine design. Magazines, with their quick cycles and relatively low production costs, are highly responsive to design trends and consumer caprice. And they’re ephemeral – you can correct your ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
While it can be argued that the half-dozen years of Ontario’s Harris government have produced little of lasting value, the same might be said for critical works on a government whose premier is commonly referred ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
BOOK DESIGN TODAY is driven by magazine design. Magazines, with their quick cycles and relatively low production costs, are highly responsive to design trends and consumer caprice. And they’re ephemeral – you can correct your ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
In Rukshana Khan’s new picture book, which is set in rural Pakistan, a little girl named Saba vies for control of the courtyard with chickens who scare her with their “bony beaks, razor claws, . ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
Not-very-good stories are wrung out of Christmas so often it’s hard to imagine a new one – a good one, that is. Acclaimed children’s author Jean Little (Orphan at My Door) turns the exhaustion of ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Hidden Buffalo, based on a Cree buffalo legend, is another good read-aloud addition to the growing body of native literature for children. It takes place during the Moon of Changing Leaves (autumn), a time when ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Frank McKenna’s political importance cannot be denied. His first mandate as premier of New Brunswick was unanimous – his Liberals utterly defeated Richard Hatfield’s Tories in 1987 and sat unopposed in the legislature. While in ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography