Zero Gravity

Zero Gravity is Sharon English’s second book of short stories. Unlike those of English’s 2002 debut, Uncomfortably Numb, these stories are not interconnected via a narrator, though there is a pervasive theme to the collection ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Moral Disorder

By Margaret Atwood

Unwary readers attempting to read Moral Disorder as a novel – an easy mistake given the lack of direction on the cover – do so at their own peril. Diligent readers who look at the ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Dead Man’s Float

By Nicholas Maes

The post-Holocaust novel or memoir has been with us for 60 years now, and like many serious cultural artifacts, it shapeshifts with the times. Dead Man’s Float, by Nicholas Maes, joins this sombre parade and ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent

By Rodrigo Bascunan, Christian Pearce

Toronto’s “summer of the gun” has come and gone, and with it much of the public debate about guns, their place in polite Canadian society, and ways to get them off the streets.Rodrigo Bascunan and ... Read More »

January 22, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George

By Hugh Brewster; Eric Valasquez, illus.

One of the most famous men of 18th-century France began life as the much-loved son of a slave and a wealthy plantation owner. Joseph de Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint-George, moved to Paris at ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

One Well: The Story of Water on Earth

By Rochelle Strauss; Rosemary Woods, illus.

The most striking thing about One Well is its luminous illustrations, which recall an illustrated children’s folktale rather than a Dorling Kindersley-style information book. Refreshingly, the images are richly coloured pastels and fluid watercolours with ... Read More »

January 19, 2007

★ At Vimy Ridge: Canada’s Greatest World War I Victory

By Hugh Brewster

At Vimy Ridge is a natural follow-up to Toronto editor and author Hugh Brewster’s successful On Juno Beach. The storming of Vimy Ridge on Easter Monday, 1917, is generally accepted as a defining moment in ... Read More »

January 19, 2007

Don’t Go Into the Forest!

By Veronika Martenova Charles; David Parkins, illus.

Tundra Books has published an unusual series of five books geared to both the educational and trade markets. Written at a Grade 2 level, these readers share the same format, characters, and theme – scary ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How It Happened in Peach Hill

By Marthe Jocelyn

Marthe Jocelyn has written before about the smoke-and-mirrors world of carnival entertainers: her 2003 novel Earthly Astonishments followed the fortunes of a girl in a Coney Island sideshow in the 1880s. In her new YA ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

1212: Year of the Journey

By Kathleen McDonnell

It’s 1233, and Abel is returning to France after serving the sultan in Cairo as teacher, adviser, and friend for the past 21 years. Abel had left France as part of the glorious Children’s Crusade ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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