Mandy, a little blonde girl with a jones for colour, goes to see her Aunt Carla for a weekend of fun, sun, and cookies. They head out to White Point Beach in Nova Scotia and ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Edward wants to fly more than anything. His dream seems set to come true when he encounters a salesman from the Eureka Lucky Wish Company. (“Buy Two. Get One Free.”) Edward buys three wishes, but, ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
As in his much-loved Zoom series of picture books, Tim Wynne-Jones’s newest, Pounce de Leon, features a cat in the role of explorer-hero. Drawing on the self-contained and introspective “personality” often ascribed to cats, Wynne-Jones ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Robert Munsch has done it again. The prolific storyteller’s latest book keeps up the high standard of silliness we’ve come to expect from Canada’s King of KidLit. The familiar formula of repetition, exaggeration, and humour ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Andy Jones, a founder of the comedy troupe CODCO, retells a traditional Newfoundland tale here, just as he did in 2003’s Hackmatack Award-winning Peg Bearskin. The story features elements in common with many good folk ... Read More »
August 31, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Generation A, Douglas Coupland’s 11th novel, is a great bookend to Generation X, the novel that launched his career. The term “Generation A” was in fact coined by Kurt Vonnegut, but Coupland embraces it and ... Read More »
August 24, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Father Duncan MacAskill is called The Exorcist. Not in the traditional sense, however: at his bishop’s bidding, he drives out devils of a different sort – priests who molest children. He does not banish the ... Read More »
August 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Papercut Heart is a short volume containing nine poems, all of them charmingly illustrated by the author. Most of the text is handwritten, and the result is a pleasant little collection that tackles the usual ... Read More »
August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica
Serge Patrice Thibodeau’s Seul on est won the Governor General’s Award in 2007, an honour which no doubt helped it become one of the few books of contemporary French-Canadian poetry translated into English. Seul on ... Read More »
August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
If, as W.H. Auden once asserted, a writer’s only political duty is “to translate the fiction and poetry of other countries so as to make them available to readers in his own,” then, based on ... Read More »
August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
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