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Maria Chapdelaine

By Louis Hémon, Rajka Kupesic, illus.

It is a Herculean task to transform a novel into a picture book, especially when it’s a Canadian classic. Tundra has attempted it with Maria Chapdelaine, beautifully illustrated by Rajka Kupesic, but the result calls ... Read More »

September 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

What Will We Do With the Baby-O?

By Theo Heras, Jennifer Herbert, illus.

Toronto children’s librarian Theo Heras has compiled a lovely selection of 10 rhymes and songs for very young children. Most of the rhymes are traditional and can be sung; sheet music is provided at the ... Read More »

September 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

For Sure! For Sure!

By Hans Christian Andersen, Stefan Czernecki, illus.

How does one loose feather become five dead chickens? Denmark’s most famous storyteller answers that question with a story of henhouse gossip run amuck. A silly remark by a respectable hen is overheard and passed ... Read More »

September 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pocket Rocks

By Sheree Fitch, Helen Flook, illus.

A sensitive child, Ian Goobie finds printing and other classroom concepts enormously challenging. One day he finds a rock in the schoolyard that, once in his hand, transports him to another world, calming his anxiety. ... Read More »

September 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Coyote’s New Suit

By Thomas King, Johnny Wales, illus.

Coyote’s back and, happily, he’s caught up in another bad idea. This time, spurred on by Raven, he sets his covetous eye on his woodland neighbours’ wardrobes. In no time at all, Coyote is blithely ... Read More »

September 17, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Tiger Claw

By Shauna Singh Baldwin

The Tiger Claw is a Second World War spy novel with a difference. The spy in question was a real woman, a radio operator who volunteered for Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was dropped ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Hunger’s Brides

By Paul Anderson

By the midway point of Hunger’s Brides’ almost 1,400 pages, the suspense is starting to build, not merely at a narrative level – what are the dark secrets of poet Sor Juana’s childhood? how will ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Snowbird Poems

By Robert Kroetsch

Robert Kroetsch has deservedly earned a reputation as one of the leading writers of what, for lack of a better term, has been called Canadian postmodernism. Kroetsch’s self-reflexive narration is well in evidence in his ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Night Street Repairs

In his 16th poetry collection, A.F. Moritz shows how master wordsmiths ply their trade. The poems in Night Street Repairs stand firm as pillars of accessible poetry rooted in the qualified skill of a veteran ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the Victims of September 11

By Diane Schoemperlen

Surely no one would dispute that real-life tragedy can spark transcendent art. But that blithe generalization gets put to the test in Diane Schoemperlen’s new book-length essay, Names of the Dead: An Elegy for the ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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