Pocketful of Stars: Rhymes, Chants and Lap Games

By Felicity Williams, Michael Martchenko, illus.

This collection of rhymes and games is designed to help parents interact with their babies in fun and playful ways. The book includes both entirely new rhymes and new versions of old favourites like “This ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Muddle Cuddle

By Laurel Dee Gugler, Vlasta van Kampen, illus.

Muddle Cuddle, a rhyming, rollicking tale of a daddy’s lap and the various creatures who pile into it, is pure fun for the two-to-six age group and adults who read to them. It all begins ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Farmer Joe Baby-sits

By Nancy Wilcox Richards, Werner Zimmermann, illus.

Farmer Joe is a warm-hearted, simple soul, a lovable schlemiel who gets by with a little help from his animal friends and a very competent wife. The whole crew first appeared in Farmer Joe’s Hot ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Apparatus

By Don McKay

I am reading this book, Land to Light On, this collection of poetry, this history, this anger, this celebration. Or am I? I have the impression that I am not reading. I am listening. Is ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Land to Light on

By Dionne Brand

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Two by George: Consecrated Ground and Gideon’s Blues

By George Elroy Boyd

In George Elroy Boyd’s Gideon’s Blues, Momma-Lou remembers how her husband, Poppy, used to say that this was “one nigger-hatin’ town.” I hazard a guess that it might be comforting for some Canadians’ self-image if ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

High Life

By Lee Macdougall

Neither Andrew Moodie, author of Riot, nor Lee Macdougall, who wrote High Life, had plays produced before writing these. Both men were, and are, actors who decided they wanted to write. Many people involved in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Riot

By Andrew Moodie

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Rock, Rhythm and Reels: Canada’s East Coast Musicians on Stage

By Lee Fleming, ed.

Writing about music, mused Woody Allen, is like dancing about architecture. So in preparing Rock, Rhythm and Reels, author Lee Fleming went straight to the source to uncover the charm and passion underlying the flourishing ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Ad Men Move on Lhasa: Writing and Culture in a Virtual World

By Steven Heighton

With his new book of essays, award-winning Kingston poet and short story writer Steven Heighton joins the dark, millennial murmurings of writers like Sven Birkerts, whose 1994 Gutenberg Elegies sounded an eloquent warning knell – ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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