The Secret Language of Girls

There aren’t many secrets revealed in The Secret Language of Girls. But, then again, I’m a girl, making me privy, I suppose, to these secrets. The book is the fourth from Josey Vogels, a Canadian ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Promise of Salt

By Lorie Miseck

There’s something about the experience of grieving that memoirs capture particularly well. Perhaps because grief is so little understood, so socially difficult, and because it can take such a surprisingly long time to overcome, the ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Eloise: Letters to a Lost Child

By Loise Lavallee

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family’s Experience Living in a Haunted House

By Dorah L. Williams

She’s no Stephen King. And she’s no John Robert Colombo (author of a series of books about haunted Ontario). Yet this chilling memoir by Dorah Williams, an ordinary housewife and mother of three, still manages ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 Bc

By Henry T. Aubin

Something happened 2,700 years ago in a corner of the Assyrian Empire, and according to Montreal journalist Henry Aubin, it was vitally important to the development of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and our modern world. In ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: History

Last Days in Africville

By Dorothy Perkyns

In the mid 1960s the city of Halifax relocated the residents of a 100-year-old black community and razed Africville in the name of urban renewal. These churning events are explored for the first time for ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Different Kind of Beauty

By Sylvia McNicoll

Elizabeth Kerr is back in Sylvia McNicoll’s sequel to her Silver Birch winner Bringing Up Beauty. In this book, 14-year-old Elizabeth, slogging through the morass of teenage angst, grapples with her first year of high ... Read More »

January 15, 2004

Take the Stairs

By Karen Krossing

In her first novel for teens, Take the Stairs, Toronto author Karen Krossing attempts something very difficult – to write a young adult novel in 13 voices. She comes tantalizingly close to succeeding. The 13 ... Read More »

January 15, 2004

One Some Many

By Marthe Jocelyn, Tom Slaughter, illus.

There is not a whiff of underpants or cute-bunnykins anthropomorphism about One Some Many, the first picture-book collaboration between the husband-and-wife team of author-illustrator Marthe Jocelyn (Hannah’s Collections) and visual artist Tom Slaughter. Indeed, this ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

When They Are Up

By Maggee Spicer and Richard Thompson, Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus.

The newest collaboration between husband-and-wife team Thompson and Spicer is delightful. Their wacky twist on the nursery rhyme The Grand Old Duke of York comes with lyrics and music; that’s apt, since the music of ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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