Initiation

Initiation, Virginia Frances Schwartz’s latest novel for young adults, is a complex and intriguing text that will invite discussion and perhaps controversy. Set in 15th-century northwest British Columbia, the novel interprets a Kwakiutl transformation myth, ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Tales of Court and Castle

By Joan Bodger, Mark Lang. illus.

Mark Lang’s playful cover illustration depicts the late Joan Bodger, walking stick and all, dressed as a medieval entertainer. Mid-story, she’s surrounded by an enraptured audience at a round table. It’s an appropriate cover because, ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Zipitio

By Jorge Argueta, Gloria Calderón, illus., Elisa Amado, trans.

The title character of the newest in Groundwood’s series highlighting Latin American children’s writers is an awkward little man whose feet face in the wrong direction and whose big belly and long sharp nails make ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The World That Loved Books

By Stephen Parlato

Welcome to a world where everyone reads, and everyone becomes what they read. A man reading a book about flowers turns into blooms, and a rabbit reading a book on turtles suddenly finds his body ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Peg Bearskin

By Adapted by Philip Dinn and Andy Jones; Elly Cohen, illus.

The indomitable Peg Bearskin, so named because she is hairy and big, propels this traditional Newfoundland tale. Peg and her two pretty sisters, on the road to seek their fortune, accept the hospitality of an ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Eugene’s Story

By Richard Scrimger, Gillian Johnson, illus.

A middle child who’s sandwiched between two sisters, Eugene gets a lot of interference when he’s trying to tell his story. For that matter, he gets a lot of interference when he tries to do ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

New Boots for Hudson

By Marc Tetro

Author/illustrator Marc Tetro’s sixth picture book combines wit and bold illustration with the theme of learning that home is truly where the heart is. Hudson, Tetro’s latest animal hero, is a hardworking husky living in ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Homebaking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss taught us that food not only keeps people alive, but with all the associated rituals and myths of preparation and consumption, it also keeps peoples alive – that is, food is ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Parlance

By Suzanne Zelazo

Though Parlance is her first book-length publication of poetry, Toronto poet Suzanne Zelazo’s name is likely familiar to many through her role as editor of the Queen Street Quarterly. This literary magazine has a reputation ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

One Large Coffin to Go: A Polly Deacon Murder Mystery

By H. Mel Malton

This is the fourth in Malton’s series of cosy mysteries featuring an Ontario puppet-maker eking out a precarious lifestyle in the cottage-country bush somewhere north of Toronto. The approaching winter season finds Polly Deacon three ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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