Reviews

★ The Reading Environment: How Adults Help Children Enjoy Books

Are public libraries saving money, or are they killing their futures when they eliminate children’s librarians? Are school boards saving money or squandering priceless opportunities when they eliminate budgets for books?British reading specialist Aidan Chambers ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Tell Me: Children, Reading and Talk

By Aidan Chambers

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality

By Donna Laframboise

If you watch TV or read the popular press, you probably know more about the rebellion against feminism than you do about feminism itself. Nay-sayers to the women’s movement have been popular since Camille Paglia, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ White Tie and Decorations: Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934–1936

By Peter Neary, ed.

The title of this selection of letters written from pre-Canadian Newfoundland by one of its British administrators and his wife constitutes a radical undervaluation. White Tie and Decorations is not, in fact, a book about ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Presumption of Culture: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in the Canadian Cultural Landscape

By Tom Henighan

When Sheila Finestone, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, suggested a couple of years ago that “Canada has no national culture,” her intention may have been to affirm Canada’s wide diversity of cultures and lack of ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brink

By Mark Kingwell

As we edge closer to the year 2000, there is one clear sign that the apocalypse is upon us: everyone’s writing about it.And I do mean everyone. It’s getting difficult to open a magazine or ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Back on the Rez: Finding the Way Home

By Brian Maracle

In 1993, Brian Maracle, a Mohawk journalist in his mid-40s, abandoned his career in Ottawa and moved to the largely rural Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario. His family had left the reserve when he ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Fire in the Bones: Bill Mason and the Canadian Canoeing Tradition

By James Raffan

It would make a good trivia question: Which Canadian film out-grossed The Sting, The Godfather, American Graffiti, and Serpico in its first week in New York?The film was Cry of the Wild, by Canadian filmmaker ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Exiles Among You

By Kristjana Gunnars

The 72 short pieces that make up B.C. poet Kristjana Gunnars’ Exiles Among You form an extended meditation or book of days, an étude on the nature of grief: “how every day we/say goodbye to ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Water Memory

By Roo Borson

Water Memory, Roo Borson’s brilliant, moody, ninth collection of poetry, offers the reader a very broad tonal variety, from the playful, often joyous poems of “Cloud Music” (the book’s first section) to the desolate, grief-stricken ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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