What do we tell the children? With the world events of last fall, everyone who lives or works with young people had to face that question. What do we tell them about war, justice, vengeance, ... Read More »
January 26, 2004
Right from page three, when a grizzly interrupts Becky’s hissy fit in a mountain meadow, Sky Horse hasn’t a dull moment. Becky is outraged at being stuck in the wilderness of Mustang Mountain Ranch with ... Read More »
January 26, 2004
Andrea Spalding’s prologue to the first book of her fantasy quartet set in the White Horse Hills of Oxfordshire crackles: “In the Place Beyond Morning, terrible trouble arose.” We’re listening in as the great white ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
When I grow up, I’m going to be a Mountie.” So opens Anne Laurel Carter’s new picture book, a first-person narrative of one boy’s ability to turn the task of finding his wayward little brother ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
A little mouse goes outside to play one morning, and in the course of the day he has fun with a bouncy dog, a wiggly pig, a timid sheep, a friendly cow, a happy cat, ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In this sequel to Loon Lake Fishing Derby, Kathleen Cook Waldron takes young readers on another madcap adventure with the same four animal friends: a squirrel, salamander, mouse, and turtle. On a hot summer day, ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In the middle of a Canadian winter, it’s quite a pleasure to look at a picture book about a sunny summer day on the beach. Jane Barclay tells her story in the voice of a ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Anyone who has lived in downtown Toronto in the past 10 years has probably been exposed to the art of Fiona Smyth. A respected and sometimes controversial Toronto artist, Smyth has been referred to as ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
The Shape of a Girl and Jewel are both one-act, one-character plays that hold a microscope to stories from the Canadian news. A teenage girl beaten to death by her peers and the story of ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Imagists like Ezra Pound used to throw around the phrase “ut pictura poesis,” which means “as is painting so is poetry.” The saying suggested that a poem draws out the same sensations as a painting, ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
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