The Scarlet Cross: The Fourth Book of the Crusades

Karleen Bradford’s The Scarlet Cross takes as its backdrop one of the great tragedies of the Middle Ages, the disastrous Children’s Crusade of 1212. While tending his sheep, 15-year-old Stephen of Cloyes has a vision. ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

Magnifico

By Victoria Miles

Victoria Miles, already known as a science writer, turns her hand to historical fiction in this novel, set in 1930s Vancouver. Although she has asked for a piano, Mariangela Benetti finds that her grandmother and ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Last Chance

By Norah McClintock

Though this is Norah McClintock’s first Robyn Hunter mystery published in Canada, there are Swedish editions of two other Robyn Hunter titles in print. Thus, Swedish readers may already know Robyn as a slightly uptight, ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

The Quilt of Belonging: Stitching Together the Stories of a Nation

By Janice Weaver

When visual artist Esther Bryan decided to embark on an art project to celebrate Canada’s ethnic diversity, a patchwork quilt seemed a natural choice. Bryan envisioned “a monument in stitches and fabric to the patchwork ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

You Can’t Read This: Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes

By Val Ross

In You Can’t Read This, Toronto writer Val Ross turns her capable hand to the fraught history of reading and writing. Spanning several centuries, the text touches on many topics, including duplicitously bilingual colonial treaties, ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

Crazy About Canada! Amazing Things Kids Want to Know

By Vivien Bowers; Dianne Eastman, illus.

The team of Vivien Bowers and Dianne Eastman has done it again. They’ve produced yet another book that is humorous, lively, and interesting. This fourth title in a series about Canada features the author herself ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

Taming Horrible Harry

By Lili Chartrand; Susan Ouriou, trans.; Rogé, illus.

Horrible Harry is a monster whose job is to scare humans away from the forest. A single roar usually suffices – that is, until the fateful day when he tries to frighten a little girl ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Scaredy Squirrel

By Melanie Watt

This cheerful picture book is for and about the seriously fearful. Scaredy is a squirrel who won’t leave his nut tree because of possible hazards in the unknown, such as killer bees, poison ivy, and ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dragon Tide

By Ingrid Lee; Soizick Meister, illus.

In her new picture book, Dragon Tide, Toronto writer and teacher Ingrid Lee taps the typical childhood experience of working hard on a sand sculpture only to see it wrecked by other people or the ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Certainty

By Madeleine Thien

As I read Madeleine Thien’s first novel, I was reminded time and again of Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces, another work set largely in Canada but taking as its canvas the memories and unresolved legacies of ... Read More »

June 1, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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