When Nathan was five, his father left him and his mother for a 19-year-old dental hygienist. Since then, his dad (or “Old Man,” as Nathan refers to him) hasn’t managed more than the occasional phone ... Read More »
January 2, 2013
Escape to Gold Mountain is a daring experiment in making a neglected facet of Canadian history available in a format that has proven accessible and appealing to both adolescent and adult readers: the graphic novel. ... Read More »
January 2, 2013
Admirers of Charles de Lint’s mythology-infused fantasy books will delight in this expanded version of his 2003 picture book A Circle of Cats. Reborn as an illustrated middle-grade novel, The Cats of Tanglewood Forest begins ... Read More »
January 2, 2013
This charming picture book transports readers across Canada, inviting sleepy young ones to bid goodnight to each province and territory. Written and illustrated by Andrea Beck, author of the popular Elliot Moose series, Goodnight, Canada ... Read More »
January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books
If you hang out with Newfoundlanders for any length of time, you’re bound to be regaled with stories and songs. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that these two books by Newfoundland authors contain both stories ... Read More »
January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books
If you hang out with Newfoundlanders for any length of time, you’re bound to be regaled with stories and songs. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that these two books by Newfoundland authors contain both stories ... Read More »
January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books
“Spring is such a funny thing,” muses author Tim Beiser in the opening lines of this delightfully brisk ode to seasonal romance among the woodland set. Miss Mousie has stopped in at the local deli, ... Read More »
January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books
Reminiscent of Tracy Chevalier’s novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, Cathy Marie Buchanan’s second novel tells the fascinating story of the young 19th-century Parisian ballerina who posed for Edgar Degas’ famous sculpture Little Dancer, Aged ... Read More »
December 17, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
There’s a one-man show – and, possibly, a standup routine – dying to leap out of the pages of Words to Live By, the amusing memoir by William Whitehead – actor, documentary writer, and, by ... Read More »
December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In the latest issue of the recently reanimated magazine The Baffler, Steve Almond takes aim at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for, among other things, being “parasites of the dysfunction they mock” and “remaining careful ... Read More »
December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Reference
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