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A Second Is a Hiccup

By Hazel Hutchins, Kady MacDonald Denton, illus.

Albertan author Hazel Hutchins has created an engaging structure for her book about time. The length of verse always approximates the amount of time described. She defines a second in a couple of phrases, a ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Peg and the Yeti

By Kenneth Oppel, Barbara Reid, illus.

The remarkable Kenneth Oppel shows his mastery here of yet another type of children’s writing: the tall tale as picture book. Like his extremely popular Silverwing series, the Peg books (this is the second) feature ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

’67: The Maple Leafs, Their Sensational Victory and the End of an Empire

By Damien Cox and Gord Stellick

With all the grumbling going on among hockey fans these days about greedy players and even greedier owners, ’67 is just what the doctor ordered: a nostalgic look back at one of the legendary squads ... Read More »

October 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books

By Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel’s latest literary offering takes readers through a year of rereading some of this ever erudite and eclectic reader’s favourite books. Between June 2002 and May 2003, Manguel explored such unlikely literary bedfellows as ... Read More »

October 4, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

I’ll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers

By Anne Coleman

Anne Coleman has a secret: as a teen she was in love with the much older, much lauded Canadian author Hugh MacLennan. She got to know him over seven summers in the 1950s, when they ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ There Is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden

By Patrick Lane

A drinker for most of his adult life, Patrick Lane has been a gardener for even longer. At the beginning of this memoir he has been sober for months, by its end for over a ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Man’s River

By Farley Mowat

In May of this year Farley Mowat turned 83. His latest book, No Man’s River, shows that the grand old man of Canadian adventure writing hasn’t lost his touch. This is a first-person account of ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian

By Keith Spicer

Keith Spicer has never been afraid to speak up. As commissioner of official Languages he preached the benefits of bilingualism to a wary nation. As CRTC Chairman he convinced resistant broadcasters to end violent children’s ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Last Chance Bay

By Anne Laurel Carter

In 1936 Beryl Markham, the British pioneer aviator, attempted the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from England to New York. Battling low cloud, tempestuous weather, and a frozen fuel line that twice nearly stalled her ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Esther

By Sharon McKay

Stories of girls who pass as boys have been a perennial favourite in children’s historical fiction. In Esther, Sharon McKay (Charlie Wilcox’s Great War) explores this theme with a novel based on the true tale ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Quill and Quire

A Second Is a Hiccup

★ Peg and the Yeti

’67: The Maple Leafs, Their Sensational Victory and the End of an Empire

A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books

I’ll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers

★ There Is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden

No Man’s River

Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian

Last Chance Bay

Esther

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