Arthur Slade’s new novel is the first in his Canadian Chills Series, a line of mysteries for middle readers set in Canadian locales. As in the author’s Northern Frights novels (beginning with Draugr in 1998), ... Read More »
January 8, 2004
Those who are wary of preschool books with a TV connection will be pleasantly surprised by Caillou. Published in Quebec, the Caillou books feature a bald little boy. With input from child psychologists and produced ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Those who are wary of preschool books with a TV connection will be pleasantly surprised by Caillou. Published in Quebec, the Caillou books feature a bald little boy. With input from child psychologists and produced ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Princess Fred (yes, Fred; she’s the daughter of King Nancy and Queen David) lives in a comical medieval land where backwards is normal. People greet each other with “You see to nice!”; signs hang upside-down; ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Beyond simply telling a good story, the best children’s literature bases itself on a single, unifying theme. The brevity of the work and the age of the audience demand it. The theme need not necessarily ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Trickster extraordinaire Anancy the Spider can’t help bragging that his adventures are bigger and better than everyone else’s. When his little spider friends throw him a big beach party in the shadow of a haunted ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Long ago in India, a young worrywart hare settles down for a nap, only to be startled by a falling mango. It sounds like an explosion, and she panics, shouting, “The world is breaking up!” ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Don’t be fooled by appearances. Tracking Doctor Lonecloud is a short book, but it contains more information than most books twice its size, and much of the content isn’t documented anywhere else. The subject, Jerry ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In his poem “The Squall,” P.E.I. poet Milton Acorn muses on the odd fact that rowers must face backwards, “taking direction from where they’d been,/With only quick-snatched glances at where they’re going.” It is fitting ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Carol Shields claims to have been “an avid theatre-goer in the sixties and seventies,” when she was “greatly attracted to the experimental theatre of the time.” Her own plays, collected here for the first time, ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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