What do you do with an evil genius if you’ve already explored his skulduggery in two previous books? If you’re Cary Fagan, you reform him, under the tutelage of his former victims. In this third ... Read More »
October 29, 2008
It isn’t easy being different, particularly when your Value Village clothes and severe peanut allergy make you the number-one target of every mean kid in school. Word Nerd, the latest novel from veteran Degrassi screenwriter ... Read More »
October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Anything But Hank aims high, attempting to combine Lewis Carroll’s whimsy with Robert Service’s sense of rough adventure. Or so says the jacket blurb. The cover art hints at action and weirdness, with a baby ... Read More »
October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
The oral traditions of many of the First Nations of Western Canada and the U.S. include a story about a woman who married a bear. While peripheral details vary from nation to nation, the stories ... Read More »
October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
Twenty-six precocious youngsters eat, sing, and pirouette their way through Jordan D. Troutt’s first children’s book, The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes. Troutt features one child for every letter of the alphabet, encapsulating their personality ... Read More »
October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
Anyone picking up Where You Came From expecting a scientifically solemn and medically correct account of the facts of life for pre-schoolers is in for a surprise. In this, a follow-up to Sara O’Leary and ... Read More »
October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
Though its target readership probably won’t notice, older readers – as in 30-plus years of age – might find that the title character of author/illustrator Matt Hammill’s first book bears a striking resemblance to Uncle ... Read More »
October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
In 1972, Idi Amin had a dream in which God told him to expel Uganda’s 80,000 ethnic Indians. They had 90 days to leave. Set during this tumultuous period, Child of Dandelions is a stirring ... Read More »
October 24, 2008
Love of place is a staple of poetry. (Seamus Heaney, for instance, would be a very different poet without Irish peat bogs.) All the same, it can be a tough theme to make work over ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
In this, her fourth collection, St. Francis Xavier University professor Jeanette Lynes gives us a poetic biography of 1960s diva Dusty Springfield. Lynes is perhaps best known as a funny writer, and while It’s Hard ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
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