The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists

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

Ned Mouse Breaks Away

By Tim Wynne-Jones, Dusan Petricic, illus.

Ned Mouse, the hero of this beginner reader chapter book, is a political prisoner. Having written a protest message in a pile of cooked spinach (“The government is unfair to mice,” traced with one finger), ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

The Kids Book of World Religions

By Jennifer Glossop, John Mantha, illus.

I had reservations about the wisdom of condensing 15 religions, with all their complexities, into 62 pages. But The Kids Book of World Religions, a clearly written and organized primer for young readers, goes a ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

The Martial Arts Book

By Laura Scandiffio, Nicolas Debon, illus.

Children keen to try out martial arts will quickly learn that there’s more to karate than the stunts seen in action movies. The Martial Arts Book highlights the historical beginnings of martial arts, emphasizing the ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

Ode to Newfoundland

By Geoff Butler, illus., lyrics by Sir Cavendish Boyle

An ideal gift for any Newfoundlander, tourist, or exile, this cheerfully illustrated book celebrates the land, seascapes, people, and traditions of Canada’s easternmost province. Its primary text, displayed in a banner held by two puffins ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

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