In Another Place, Not Here

Dionne Brand’s 1990 volume of poetry, No Language Is Neutral, sold over 6,000 copies, a remarkable number, even with a Governor General’s Award nomination. Her first novel will please those intrigued with Brand’s politically mediated, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

When I Went to the Library: Writers Celebrate Books and Reading

By Debora Pearson, ed.

In the library, in books, I discovered a wild freedom – not just to learn for myself what gave me pleasure, but to live other lives, see through other eyes, go adventuring, sail, fly, suffer, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Dust

By Arthur Slade

At first the dedication seemed mystifying. “For W.O. Mitchell, Wallace Stegner and Ray Bradbury.” Surely Bradbury was the odd man out. Was this going to be grain elevator meets alien de-moleculizer? But then I remembered ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Teaching Pigs to Sing

By Cordelia Strube

“Nothing, like something, happens anywhere,” the poet Philip Larkin said. At its best, Cordelia Strube’s third novel, Teaching Pigs to Sing, manages to make something out of nothing. Regrettably, this story of Rita Johnson, a ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fodor’s Around Toronto with Kids

By Kate Pocock

Fodor’s Around Toronto with Kids by Kate Pocock is the latest in a wave of kid-centred Toronto guides, following on the heels of Lobster Press’s Toronto guide by Natalie Comeau, Anne Holloway’s Toronto with Kids, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

The Sex Book: An Alphabet of Smarter Love

By Jane Pavanel, Grant Cunningham, illus.

This glossary-style book about sex and related issues for teens is intended to be an everything - you - need - to - know - about - sex book. Jane Pavanel, a Montreal children’s book ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Why? the Best Ever Question and Answer Book About Nature, Science, and the World Around You

By Catherine Ripley, Scot Ritchie, illus.

Why? is actually a compilation of six previously published books by the Ripley-Ritchie team. The books were inspired by questions sent to Ripley when she was the editor of Chickadee magazine. Rather than simply list ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

★ Arousing the Goddess

By Tim Ward

Susan Sontag concludes her essay, “Against Interpretation,” with an admonition to critics: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” I thought of Sontag’s essay while reading Tim Ward’s wonderful new novel, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Make Cool Gadgets for Your Room

By Amy Pinchuk, Teco Rodrigues, illus.

I assumed from the title that this book might be about making cute papier-mâché mobiles. However, this – the second title of the new Popular Mechanics for Kids series – is about making mechanical gadgets ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

★ Volcano!

By Cynthia Pratt Nicolson

Volcano! recounts the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, then highlights volcanic sites around the world, from the “cinder cones” of Iceland and flat “shield volcanoes” of Hawaii, to the killer mud-floods of Colombia ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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