Rollercoaster: My Hectic Years As Jean Chrétien’s Diplomatic Advisor

The trouble with James Bartleman’s new diplomatic memoir is that he has his own tough act to follow. For sheer entertainment value, Rollercoaster can’t compete with his previously published On Six Continents, replete as that ... Read More »

March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Wanda and the Wild Hair

By Barbara Azore, Georgia Graham, illus.

Wanda seems to be the only one who loves her wild hair – so wild it serves as a sun visor in the summer and a snowflake catcher in winter. Despite complaints from her parents ... Read More »

March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

By a Thread

By Ned Dickens, Graham Ross, illus.

A bursting toy box is the starting point for this fantasy adventure; when mother hears the eruption and checks out the room, her only comment is to wonder bluntly where the floor is. In this ... Read More »

March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Baseball Card

By Jack Siemiatycki and Avi Slodovnick, Laura Watson, illus.

Authors Jack Siemiatycki and Avi Slodovnick follow the success of their previous book, The Hockey Card, with a new title in the same tradition of tall tales and sport legends. The Baseball Card begins when ... Read More »

March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke

By Steven Hayward

Steven Hayward’s debut novel is a big-hearted fable set in Depression-era Toronto in the enclave of poor Jews and Catholics known as “the Ward.” It begins with a challenge: Bloomberg, the legendary pitcher for the ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Three-Day Road

By Joseph Boyden

One of Canada’s great unsung heroes was Francis Pegahmagabow, an Ojibway from the Parry Island (now Wasauksing) band who fought in the First World War. Known under the sobriquet Peggy, he received the Military Medal ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bastardi Puri

By Walid Bitar

The poems in Walid Bitar’s third collection are, as the book’s paradoxical title suggests, pure bastards. The poetics of Bitar, a Lebanese-born Canadian, are characterized by typically postmodern concerns: fractured subjectivity; the malleability of language ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Playing with Matches: Misadventures in Dating

By Amy Cameron

Billed as a companion book for women “who have more experience with recipes for disaster than recipes for romance,” Amy Cameron’s Playing with Matches attempts to capitalize on the impulse to anecdotalize the infamous (but ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

The Enamoured Knight

By Douglas Glover

Douglas Glover’s extended meditation on Don Quixote, The Enamoured Knight, is simply packed to the brim with marvellous stuff. Not only does he lovingly and with great thoughtfulness delve into the richness of Cervantes’ masterwork, ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution

By Judy Rebick

At a time when it seems the women’s movement in Canada has all but evaporated, along comes a book to remind us what great strides this country’s feminists achieved in the latter part of the ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies

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