Toronto musician Reva Marin’s new book on the great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson is a well-balanced and fair-minded biography for young people. Marin gives the reader enough background about jazz styles and the elements ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Events
In 2003 the Juno Beach Centre opened in France to document and memorialize Canada’s Second World War contributions. Juno Beach, a book and CD-ROM created by researcher Pierre Landry and two history teachers, is based ... Read More »
January 5, 2004
Two new biographical compilations of great Canadians, historical and contemporary, tackle the topic in different ways. Elizabeth MacLeod takes an encyclopedic approach in The Kids Book of Great Canadians, featuring capsule entries on 150 memorable ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Two new biographical compilations of great Canadians, historical and contemporary, tackle the topic in different ways. Elizabeth MacLeod takes an encyclopedic approach in The Kids Book of Great Canadians, featuring capsule entries on 150 memorable ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
It’s nice to report a new entry in the ranks of good car books, courtesy of one of the best-known automotive writers around. Phil Edmonston, author of more than 100 books about cars (notably the ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
The idea for this book emerged from a late-night booze-up between its editors – Evan Solomon and Andrew Heintzman, the once-young Turks who brought us Shift magazine – and their pointy-headed friends. Unlike many alcohol-abetted ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
In Mortal Arguments, transplanted Newfoundland poet Sue Sinclair widens her poetic vision to embrace the whole span of human existence – from birth to death. These poems dwell more on questions and images of mortality, ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Flux, the debut collection from Vancouver poet Joe Denham, is written in the roughly hewn cadences of work and pain, an all-pervading awareness of mortality, and a quiet sense of the sacred. The opening sequence of ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
At a time when aspiring journalists have few choices beyond joining the characterless world of the modern mass media, the voice of a rare journalistic gadfly should serve as a welcome antidote. For over 50 ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
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