★ Dippers

Dippers is that rare book that appeals to both adults and children on several levels at once. Set in 1912 near the Don River in Toronto, the book melds the ordinary and the fantastic in ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Bodies in Motion: A Matthew Prior Mystery

By Anthony Quogan

In pseudonymous Toronto mystery writer Anthony Quogan’s Bodies in Motion, recurring character Matthew Prior is commissioned to adapt Hitchcock’s train thriller The Lady Vanishes for a modern-day American audience. By way of research, he is ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Best Book of Bikes

By Amy Pinchuk

I don’t know if Quebec author and engineer Amy Pinchuk’s latest contribution to the Popular Mechanics for Kids series is the best book of bikes, but it’s certainly one of the most comprehensive. The six ... Read More »

April 16, 2004

In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology

By Allan Forrie, Patrick O’Rourke, Glen Sorestad, eds.

For decades, Saskatchewan-based Thistledown Press has been publishing poetry collections by well-known and lesser-known Canadian writers. The editors of In the Clear have exploited the press’s archival wealth to compile a large anthology whose purpose ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Great Software for Kids and Parents

By Cathy Miranker and Alison Elliot

IDG Books has discreetly minimized the Dummies logo on its new kids-and-parents computing series, packaging this set as “a cool reference for the whole family.” The three guides, covering software for kids aged 2-12, web ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The World Wide Web for Kids and Parents

By Viraf Mohta

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Take Charge Computing for Teens and Parents

By Pam Dixon

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Between the Stillness and the Grove

By Erika de Vasconcelos

Erika de Vasconcelos’s second novel is more ambitious in scope than her acclaimed debut. Where My Darling Dead Ones concerned itself with the personal histories of a family of women, Between the Stillness and the ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

UN

By Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee’s new poetry collection, UN, is no book for children. Unless, that is, you think children should be prepared for 21st-century adulthood with frank discussions of cultural brain-death and planetary extinction. These are staggering ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

It Pays to Play

By Peter White

In the postmodern tradition of taking the most irreverent “cultural bottom feeders” and elevating them to the lofty heights of intellectual discourse, curator and writer Peter White, scores with It Pays to Play, an exhibition ... Read More »

April 13, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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