What I Remember from My Time on Earth

What I Remember From My Time on Earth follows four years after Patricia Young’s Governor General’s Award nomination for More Watery Still. In this new collection, the seventh from the Victoria writer, Young turns her ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Lunar Perspectives: Field Notes from the Culture Wars

By Michael Keefer

Public education is under attack, the forces on the left outgunned and outmaneuvered by a well-financed campaign on the right, says English professor Michael Keefer. Across North America, conservatives are trying to starve universities into ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Body Speaking Words

By Loree Harrell

Every year, over the Labour Day Weekend, Vancouver’s Anvil Press superintends a Three-Day Novel-Writing Contest, an impossible-sounding competition that has evolved into a kind of Canadian literary institution. The title is accurate: contestants really are ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Molly’s Breakfast

By Mireille Levert

The Molly Bear series is a charming collection of board books for babies and toddlers. Each book features simple, colourful illustrations showing familiar objects from Molly’s world, such as Molly’s spoon, bathtub, and doll. These ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Molly’s Bath

By Mireille Levert

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Molly’s Toys

By Mireille Levert

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Molly’s Clothes

By Mireille Levert

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

My Arctic 1, 2, 3

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Krykorka, illus.

This very attractively presented counting book is actually two books in one. The counting book itself, with full-colour illustrations by Vladyana Krykorka, shows the Arctic animals in a hunter-prey relationship – one polar bear hunts ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Yancy & Bear

By Hazel Hutchins, Ruth Ohi, illus.

Hazel Hutchins’ new picture book puts a different twist on the favourite childhood fantasy of a toy coming to life. Early one morning, toddler Yancy and his teddy, Bear, “change places” by putting on each ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ A Cat in a Kayak

By Maria Coffey, Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

Teelo, the feline hero of this adventure story, is a reluctant traveller. When he loses his first home, he is adopted by Victor, a kindly vet who lives by himself on the seemingly idyllic Cloud ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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