What’s the Big Idea? Inventions that Changed Life on Earth Forever

Boredom Blasters and The Insecto-Files author Helaine Becker delves into the history of technology in What’s the Big Idea? Split into four chronological sections spanning 4,000 years, the book examines groundbreaking innovations and highlights a ... Read More »

January 27, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Camp Fossil Eyes: Digging for the Origins of Words

By Mark Abley; Kathryn Adams, illus.

Mark Abley, the author of one other children’s book (Ghost Cat) and two excellent adult books on language, brilliantly combines his talents in Camp Fossil Eyes, about word origins. Etymology might seem like a hard ... Read More »

January 27, 2010

Walking Backward

By Catherine Austen

Catherine Austen’s first novel takes the form of a grief journal kept by 12-year-old Josh after his mother dies in a freak accident caused by someone putting a garter snake in her car. The mystery ... Read More »

January 27, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Rough Magic

By Caryl Cude Mullin

Montreal author Caryl Cude Mullin’s newest novel is a riff on Shakespeare’s The Tempest that tells Caliban’s story from cradle to grave. Actually, it starts well before the cradle: in the play, Caliban’s mother, Sycorax, ... Read More »

January 27, 2010

Finn the half-Great

By Theo Caldwell

The stories of Fionn mac Cumhaill (later Anglicized as Finn McCool), mighty hunter and warrior, are one of the cornerstones of Irish mythology, and comprise the epic Fenian Cycle. While Finn the half-Great, the first ... Read More »

January 27, 2010

Choir Boats: Volume One of Longing for Yount

By Daniel A. Rabuzzi

The sea voyage narrative dates back to the Odyssey and beyond, and has provided the backbone for countless ballads, poems, legends, oral tales, memoirs, and novels. In Choir Boats, the first novel in a new ... Read More »

January 27, 2010

★ The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning

By George Bowering and Jean Baird, eds.

The Heart Does Break was born of paralyzing grief: Jean Baird, struggling with the sudden death of her daughter, Bronwyn, consulted counsellors and psychologists to help her deal with her loss, but found her greatest ... Read More »

January 25, 2010 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

No Place Fit for a Child

By Wade Bell

Alberta-based former oilman Wade Bell crafts vivid emotional and geographic terrains in his latest short-fiction collection, No Place Fit for a Child. The seeming permanence of nature in the face of human failings is a ... Read More »

January 18, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Sea Captain’s Wife

By Beth Powning

Beth Powning’s second novel is the affecting and engaging story of a young woman seeking her place in the world – a place away from the loneliness and boredom of a small Canadian village. Azuba ... Read More »

January 11, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Could Be

By Heather Cadsby

Could Be is an excellent title for Toronto-based poet Heather Cadsby’s fourth book of poems. Driven by the vocabulary of dreams and the sleep-sense of a somnambulist, Cadsby walks the reader through looming tragedies, misunderstandings, ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

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