Marie-claire: A Season of Sorrow

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

Hallelujah Handel

By Douglas Cowling, Jason Walker, illus.

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

Garbage Delight: Another Helping

By Dennis Lee, Maryann Kovalski, illus.

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

Accidental Alphabet

By Dianna Bonder

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

The Spirit Bride

By Bruce Meyer

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

The Perpetual Ending

By Kristen den Hartog

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

A Hard Witching and Other Stories

By Jacqueline Baker

Jacqueline Baker’s stories of the Sand Hills region of Saskatchewan seem at first to belong to the Dust Bowl era of drought and dwindling communities on land that gives back less than it takes. There’s ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

When X Equals Marylou

By Tamas Dobozy

The stories in When X Equals Marylou, the second collection from Tamas Dobozy, are the literary equivalent of broken glass in a spoonful of honey. They go down smoothly, with a bit of prickling, then ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Please

By Peter Darbyshire

Please, Peter Darbyshire’s debut novel, belongs to a genre of urban slacker/existentialist fiction recently popularized by Jesus’ Son, the critically acclaimed collection of linked stories by American Denis Johnson. The appeal of Johnson’s protagonist lay ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Appropriate Place

By Lise Bissonnette,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Lise Bissonnette’s An Appropriate Place is the sad tale of a Baby Boomer who becomes disenchanted with everything she’s achieved through feminism and Quebec nationalism. The novel opens with Gabrielle Perron, a bus driver’s daughter ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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