Hey Diddle Diddle

By Trad. nursery rhymes, Heather Collins, illus.

These four cheery titles are the newest in a series of nursery rhyme board books by veteran Toronto illustrator Heather Collins. Each traditional rhyme is given its own little book of sturdily bound boards, which ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

By Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton, trans.

Even in the months before the machetes started to fall in 1994, Kigali was not the sort of city that promised long life. The pool referred to in the title of this first novel by ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Finding Peace

By Jean Vanier

We live in a tumultuous and disheartening time, a time to which only cynicism seems the appropriate response, a bulwark against outright despair. It seems odd, if not naive, to suggest that there might be ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Joy of Writing: A Guide for Writers, Disguised as a Literary Memoir

By Pierre Berton

Having Canadian author and journalistic icon Pierre Berton explain the secret to making a living as a writer – and, to no writer’s surprise, the secret is military-like self-discipline, exhaustive research, grim determination, and hard ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists

By Taras Grescoe

These are grim times for travel writing. The glory years, of course, were 1980s and ’90s, when countless authors set out in search of a share of the riches discovered by giants like Bruce Chatwin ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Virtual Clearcut or the Way Things Are in My Hometown

By Brian Fawcett

It’s a common enough story: boy grows up in isolated small town, escapes to big city, never looks back. But author and former Globe and Mail columnist Brian Fawcett can’t quite leave his hometown of ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Crete on the Half-shell

By Byron Ayanoglu

Stage Irishmen – that’s what they’re called – those ones you see in theatre and on screen. They lard their lilting speeches with begoshes and begorras and cross themselves while traversing the peat bog because ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hit and Run

By Norah McClintock

At first glance 15-year-old Mike McGill seems like a typical smart-aleck and slacker. But there’s more to Mike – who’s under the dubious guardianship of his Uncle Billy since an unknown hit-and-run driver killed his ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Shoulder the Sky

By Lesley Choyce

It’s not normal to be so normal, especially if your mother has just died: that’s what adults keep telling 16-year-old Martin Emerson. Everyone else in Martin’s household is struggling under a blanket of grief. His ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

An Earthly Knight

By Janet McNaughton

“If my love were an earthly night,/As he’s an elfin grey,/I wad na gie my ain true-love/for nae lord that ye hae.” It’s that pesky ain true-love problem again, source of every romance novel ever ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

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