The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity

A good polemic challenges and enlightens readers, but shouldn’t leave them with a headache. David Solway’s The Big Lie requires extra-strength Aspirin. Over-written and overwrought, Solway’s book is both reminiscent of 1950s Red Scare screeds ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: The First Woman Settler on the Miramichi

By Sally Armstrong

In The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor, award-winning journalist Sally Armstrong paints a vivid picture of her great-great-great-grandmother, who survived the deaths of three husbands and one lover, and subsequently raised 10 children in the ... Read More »

July 12, 2007 | Filed under: History

★ The Book of Stanley

By Todd Babiak

At the moment, there are a number of popular TV shows (Heroes and Medium among them) that feature protagonists with superhuman abilities while still being more character-driven than the usual superhero fare. These heroes, like ... Read More »

July 9, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

That Stripy Cat

By Norene Smiley; Tara Anderson, illus.

Written by Halifax author Norene Smiley, That Stripy Cat tells the story of a cat that seems difficult to love but still manages to find a home. At the Hummingbird Animal Shelter, the stripy cat ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Looking for Loons

By Jennifer Lloyd; Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus.

In a cottage by a lake, golden sunlight wakes a young boy named Patrick. Carefully reaching for his binoculars, he creeps out of the bedroom, telling his sister Emily he’s off to look for loons. ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cinderella

By Michele Marineau; Mylene Pratt, illus.

Does the world need another Cinderella? The tale has been retold for millennia, from China to Hollywood, from the Brothers Grimm to Roald Dahl. Something in the old classic of oppressed heroine and oppressing stepfamily ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mr. Gaugin’s Heart

By Marie-Danielle Croteau; Isabelle Arsenault, illus.; Susan Ouriou, trans.

In the whimsical picture-book biography Mr. Gauguin’s Heart, Québécoise writer Marie-Danielle Croteau tells how the young Paul Gauguin discovers painting after his father dies. While the family is travelling to Peru, Mr. Gauguin dies suddenly, ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting

By Hugh Brewster; John Singer Sargent, illus.

Between 1885 and 1887, renowned expat American painter John Singer Sargent crafted his most famous work. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, a study of two girls in a garden lighting paper lanterns, is brought to life ... Read More »

July 4, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Honey Cake

By Joan Betty Stuchner; Cynthia Nugent, illus.

How does one stand against tyranny? What’s the true nature of bravery? Big questions for an early-reader chapter book, but Joan Betty Stuchner handles them with grace and honesty. Stuchner’s novel tells the fictional story ... Read More »

July 4, 2007

★ Eye of the Crow: The Boy Sherlock Holmes: His First Case

By Shane Peacock

When 13-year-old Sherlock Holmes meets the eyes of a young Arab butcher’s assistant arrested for supposedly committing a brutal murder in London’s East End, he’s drawn into a web of villainy while simultaneously setting out ... Read More »

July 4, 2007

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