Cross My Heart is a collection of short stories chronicling the coming of age of narrator Jill Summerfield in a fictional Ontario city in the 1960s. The stories in this second YA offering by Ontario ... Read More »
March 24, 2004
Sixteen-year-old Chanda’s African world slowly begins to unravel with the death of her baby stepsister. Her mother retreats into silence, then lingering illness, and her stepfather disappears into drunken oblivion. Chanda, who’s preparing for her ... Read More »
March 24, 2004
Vancouver-based writer Sheri Radford presents a cautionary yet gleeful tale of the perils of too much soda pop. Penelope quenches her thirst with glass after glass of grape soda, despite repeated warnings from her mother. ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Michael Maxwell McAllum loves superheroes, especially Perfect Man, “the greatest superhero of them all.” Michael has Perfect Man video games, Perfect Man cereal, and even his own Perfect Man web site. Then, one day, Perfect ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Hazel Hutchins’ and Ruth Ohi’s new picture book – the 16th they’ve done together – is a lively fantasy about a girl named Josie who disappears into the world of her sidewalk chalk drawings. We ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
A dozen years ago, when Barbara Hodgson and Nick Bantock were brainstorming on the name for their West Coast book design company, they wanted something that would reflect their passion for travel and ideals of ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Some six centuries before the Christian era began, the prophet Jeremiah lamented: “How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people.” That agile-minded social observer, Jane Jacobs, has written a jeremiad of sorts, ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Mordecai Richler would have hated the idea of being the subject of a hagiography. Everything his writing represented is antithetical to a family-sanctioned, cultural industry-approved biography. Besides, Richler believed that there was something oddly emboldening ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Annabel Lyon is a sharp, funny, and subversive writer who knows how to keep her readers off-balance. Reviews of her first short-story collection, Oxygen, were ecstatic, and the trio of long stories that comprise The ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
The poems in Steven Heighton’s fourth collection cover subjects from mixed tapes to dreamy landscapes, but all are painted with introspection, and all worthy of slow digestion. The Address Book is a portrait of an ... Read More »
March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
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