13 Women: Parables from Prison

This anthology chronicles the stories of a diverse cross-section of women caught up in the prison system in both Canada and the U.S. The heart-wrenching, often humorous, and coldly realistic tales, compiled through interviews conducted ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Smoke Show

By Clint Burnham

Writers as disparate as Shakespeare, Dickens, Hemingway, Joyce, Céline, V.S. Naipaul, and Flannery O’Connor used colloquial lower-middle- and working-class speech as an animating force in their work, reveling in its loose-limbed flexibility and vivid metaphoricity, ... Read More »

December 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If I Had a Million Onions

By Sheree Fitch; Yayo, illus.

"More of same” could be the short review of former Nova Scotia resident Sheree Fitch’s latest collection of nonsense verse, illustrated by Montrealer Yayo. In 25 rhyming verses, Fitch demonstrates the bouncy rhythms of internal ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

Emily’s Piano

By Charlotte Gingras; Stéphane Jorisch, illus.

Before Emily’s family began to fall apart, their grand piano was a source of joy – “happiness in a box.” Even after Emily’s much older sisters moved out and her mother stopped playing the piano, ... Read More »

November 28, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Birdfeeders

By Renée Schwarz

Previous Review Publication: Quill & Quire Review Category: Children's & Young Adult Non-Fiction Byline Michele LandsbergRights Cleared YesIssue Date: 2005 12 Word Count 992KeywordsContent:Stillness is a blessing too often absent from the lives of today’s children. After a moment of stillness ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

Mighty Robots: Mechanical Marvels That Fascinate and Frighten

By David Jones

Robots in fiction tend to be far more fascinating and frightening than robots in fact – R2D2 and the Terminator are much cooler than a small disk that can bump around your living room floor ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

Nature Shockers

By Keltie Thomas; Greg Hall, illus.

If the success of the Guinness World Records or Ripley’s Believe It or Not series is any indication, kids love oddities. Maple Tree Press brings such weirdness to the forefront with two new titles. In ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

They Did What?! Your Guide to Weird and Wacky Things People Do

By Jeff Szpirglas; Dave Whamond, illus.

November 28, 2005

The Desert Hawk

By Barbara Hehner

At an age when many young people are still in high school, Jim (“Stocky”) Edwards was training with the RCAF to head overseas. It’s an extraordinary story. Edwards’ war service cut short a possible career ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

★ Mella and the N’anga: An African Tale

By Gail Nyoka

Set in a mythic, pre-historical southern Africa, Mella and the N’anga, a novel by Trinidad-born, Ontario-based writer Gail Nyoka, is a tour de force of storytelling, at once fantastic but emotionally true and rich. In ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

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