Topsy-Turvy Town

There are few things as charming as the deeper reaches of a child’s imagination. Quebec illustrator and children’s author Luc Melanson draws on this adorable quality in his newest picture book. A little boy leads ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Chester’s Masterpiece

By Melanie Watt

Mélanie Watt’s notori0usly timid Scaredy Squirrel has become a huge hit with younger readers, spawning merchandise and even a television show. Chester, another of Watt’s creations, is in many ways the exact opposite of the ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Ilustrado

By Miguel Syjuco

In 2008, Montreal author Miguel Syjuco’s debut novel nabbed both the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Palanca Award (the Pulitzer of the Philippines) – quite a coup for a first book. Given the noisy ... Read More »

April 19, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ella’s Umbrellas

By Jennifer Lloyd; Ashley Spires, illus.

Ella has an enviable collection of umbrellas. They are colourful and speckled, sparkly and spotty, and she treasures every one. Her favourite, however, is the one that is “robin’s egg blue,” a gift from “kind ... Read More »

April 16, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir

By Judy Fong Bates

In this new memoir, Judy Fong Bates returns to the lives of her parents, Chinese launderers in small-town Ontario, who also served as the inspiration for her novel, Midnight at the Dragon Café, and her ... Read More »

April 12, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Beatrice & Virgil

By Yann Martel

“My book is about representations of the Holocaust. The event is gone; we are left with stories about it. My book is about a new choice of stories.” A book that offers readers a new ... Read More »

April 9, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Somewhere in Blue

By Gillian Cummings

Complex mother-daughter relationships drive Gillian Cummings’ first novel, a story of family secrets and the struggle to rise above grief. Sixteen-year-old Sandy Rawlins’ world is falling apart. She is coping with the recent loss of ... Read More »

April 5, 2010

The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves

By Andrew Potter

In The Authenticity Hoax, Andrew Potter, Maclean’s columnist and co-author (with Joseph Heath) of The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed, rehashes all of the same resistance-is-futile thinking from that earlier book in ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Reference

Acquired Tastes: On the Trail of the World’s Most Sought-After Delicacies

By Massimo Marcone

Not many Canadians get compared to Indiana Jones, but then again, few would travel the jungles of the Amazon in search of an indigenous drink known for its unique process of fermentation, in which the ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Food & Drink

A History of Marriage

By Elizabeth Abbott

What are the core values of marriage? How does money, or the lack of it, affect the roles of spouses? What became of the double standard that permitted “a husband to take legal action against ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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