Healing Our World: Inside Doctors Without Borders

While writing about the victims of tsunamis, earthquakes, famines, and – worst of all – civil wars, frustration and discouragement must sometimes be close to the surface. But as hard as it must be to ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Great and Awful Summer

By Mitzi Dale

Cape Breton and the windswept moors of England have more in common than you might imagine, besides rugged landscape and gorgeous vistas. Mitzi Dale’s new novel, about a young girl named Sarah working at a ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Veggies Smeggies

By Sean Moore

Vancouver animator Sean Moore’s second picture book, Veggies Smeggies, revolves around a little boy who monotonously explains to the conniving, vegetable-wielding adults around him why he loathes the green stuff. Only his grandma, with the ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Wanda and the Frogs

By Barbara Azore; Georgia Graham, illus.

In Wanda and the Frogs – the second of what readers can only hope will be a continuing picture book series – the writer/illustrator team of Barbara Azore and Georgia Graham resurrect the vivacious heroine ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Boat in the Tree

By Tim Wynne-Jones; John Shelley, illus.

The Boat in the Tree, like most picture books, functions on at least two levels. The overt story, told by a young boy, is seemingly straightforward: “The day Mom and Dad went to pick up ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

In My Backyard

By Margriet Ruurs; Ron Broda, illus.

Readers of In My Backyard will find themselves in a garden that is all the more magical for its realistic portrayal. Ron Broda’s remarkable paper sculptures are hyper-real, delicate, and enchanting rather than computer-animation-cold. The ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ French Kiss: Stephen Harper’s Blind Date with Quebec

By Chantal Hébert

Of all the books that have already been written about the Conservative Party’s 2006 electoral breakthrough, Chantal Hébert’s French Kiss is the most useful to understanding not only Stephen Harper’s victory but the circumstances that ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Types of Canadian Women, Volume II

By K.I. Press

Ragged Pen gathers together talks on poetry and memory given by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson, and Jan Zwicky at the 2005 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference and fleshes them ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory

By various

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Paper Trail

By Arleen Paré

With her first novel, Arleen Paré wants to tell you that office life is bleak. It’s monotonous and unfulfilling and you do the same things over and over and … well, you get the idea. ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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