Colors with Tropical Animals

A new board book series from Kids Can Press, Learning with Animals explains basic concepts using various groupings of animals. Each book begins with a two-page spread including all the featured animals and an inviting ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Opposites with Polar Animals

By Melanie Watt

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Shapes with Ocean Animals

By Melanie Watt

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Alphabet with Wild Animals

By Melanie Watt

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Dream Helmet

By William New, Vivian Bevis, illus.

Singing elephants, carousel horses that take flight, a dream helmet that will transport you anywhere – imagination reigns in this exuberant collection of poems. We hear echoes of poets as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

He Drown She in the Sea

By Shani Mootoo

Shani Mootoo’s second novel, He Drown She in the Sea, set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Guanagaspar, is a tale of lovers stymied by class divisions and circumstance, star-crossed in a very post-colonial, contemporary ... Read More »

May 9, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit

By Laura Penny

"Your call is important to us.” We’ve all this line before, but if my call were truly important to you, I would be talking to a living being instead of hanging on hold and being ... Read More »

May 2, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Sylvanus Now

By Donna Morrissey

To read Sylvanus Now, the third novel from Donna Morrissey, is to be immersed in the life of a Newfoundland outport community in the middle of the last century. It is a bracing experience, a ... Read More »

April 25, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Perfect Night to Go to China

By David Gilmour

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. In recent years, it’s become standard practice for novelists to adopt pop psychology’s five-stage model of grieving when writing about trauma. But as Toronto author and TV arts presenter David ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bird Factory

By David Layton

In this, his second book, David Layton tells the story of a man with an egomaniacal, eccentric, and adulterous artist for a father. It may sound like a sequel to his autobiography, Motion Sickness, in ... Read More »

April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prev 610 611612613 614....1082 1083 Next