Reviews

Clothar the Frank

To read Jack Whyte is to surrender to a storyteller of the old school. His writing is firmly rooted in the basics of good storytelling: strong characterization, effective plotting, and excellent writing. It helps, of ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight at the Dragon Café

By Judy Fong Bates

This is a terrific, page-turner of a first novel from Judy Fong Bates, who has previously published a book of short stories. Set in the 1950s, the novel tells the story of a young Chinese ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Front Yard Gardens: Growing More than Grass

By Liz Primeau

Liz Primeau knew something was wrong when she realized that insects and neighbourhood pets avoided her manicured lawn in favour of bushes and shady gardens. When she thought about it, she decided that she couldn’t ... Read More »

December 10, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

I Stand for Canada: The Story of the Maple Leaf Flag

By Rick Archbold

Post baby-boom Canadians probably have no idea that the adoption of the official red maple-leaf flag in 1965 followed a fractious, decades-long debate both inside and outside of Parliament. Diefenbaker’s Conservatives, representing the majority of ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Bloody Jack

By Dennis Cooley

Dennis Cooley’s Bloody Jack uses the story of Manitoba outlaw John Krafchenko as the launching pad for a playful and seemingly lawless exploration of poetry and language. First published in 1984, the book was an ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

The Paperboy’s Winter

By Tim Bowling

Poet Tim Bowling’s intensely interiorized story of 10-year-old Callum Taylor often reads more like a personal memoir than a typical coming-of-age novel, which is both a good and a bad thing. The intense memories of ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

By Gillian Robinson, ed.

The Inuit-made film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner gains much of its power from documentary verisimilitude, to say nothing of the unforgettable image of a naked man running for his life over a vast ice floe. ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Real Stories from the Rink

By Brian McFarlane, Steve Nease, illus.

After 27 years as a colour commentator for CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada and writing 50 books on the country’s favourite obsession, Brian McFarlane has quite a collection of anecdotes about the game. In Real ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: History

Concrete and Wild Carrot

By Margaret Avison

With her latest poetry collection, Concrete and Wild Carrot, 84-year-old Margaret Avison has once again proven she is a poet who should not be marginalized or forgotten. The poems here are deceptively accessible but open ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

By Stan Douglas

Long deemed by many to be Canada’s worst neighbourhood, and further degenerated by the infusion of cheap crack cocaine, most of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood has resisted all efforts at gentrification and reform. A block ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

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