Children’s book editor Leslie Owen has chosen the life cycle of the tiny Pacific tree frog as the subject for her first book. The text begins in a storybook-like way, but after the first couple ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their way into history after conducting the first successful controlled powered aircraft flight. Though the initial test flight that day lasted only 12 seconds, the implications ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
What do holograms have to do with some robberies at a local aquarium? Not much, as it turns out, other than to provide an interesting sidebar in Victoria author Kristin Butcher’s mystery novel Summer of ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
The biographer’s job is to blaze a trail through the forest of a life, here following the stream, there climbing the rise, then lingering in the sunny clearing before hacking through a tangled thicket. In ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Penguin’s popular Our Canadian Girl series is made up of easy-to-read (perhaps too easy) dramatic adventure stories focusing on the life and times of spirited 10-year-old girls at key historical junctures. They’re aimed at stimulating ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
The power of music to console and preserve is the underlying story of this new picture book based on the recording by Classical Kids of the same title. Darker in its subject matter than other ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Twenty-five years after its first publication, Garbage Delight has been reissued with handsome new full-colour illustrations by Maryann Kovalski and 17 brand-smacking-new poems. Twenty-five of the original book’s poems, including the title one, remain. But ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Dianna Bonder, illustrator of A Pacific Alphabet, has produced another abcedarium, this one chronicling the misadventures of 26 characters in rhyming verse. This is the first book that Bonder, an artist based near Vancouver, has ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
As a literary critic, lecturer, and author, Dr. Bruce Meyer is well known for his expertise on the “Great Books” in the Western literary canon. In many ways, The Spirit Bride, Meyer’s fifth collection of ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
As any creative writing teacher knows, serious stories about broken homes are very difficult to carry off, demanding a near-religious abstinence from anything smacking of movie-of-the-week melodramatics. Kristen den Hartog’s unsatisfying follow-up to the well-received ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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