There’s always a breeze in a Marie-Louise Gay picture book – a zephyr, a gust, a balmy caress, or an outright gale – so that the natural world seems to jig and thrum with sheer ... Read More »
July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
The writer and illustrator behind Dawn Watch, a picture book about a contemporary father-daughter sailboat outing on Lake Superior, are back with another adventure on the lake. This time it’s a historical one – it ... Read More »
July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
This story spans three idyllic days before a truck arrives to take Shi-shi-etko (whose name means “she who loves to play in the water”) to residential school. As depicted, Shi-shi-etko is, at most, six or ... Read More »
July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
L.M. Montgomery’s famous name will attract readers to this lullaby picture book, which is based on a poem first published in a magazine in 1916. Replete with lyrical visions and dreamy sentiment, the poem is ... Read More »
July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
Prima ballerina Karen Kain becomes a storyteller with this new picture book version of The Nutcracker, based on James Kudelka’s National Ballet production of Tchaikovsky’s well-loved piece. This version is set in Russia rather than ... Read More »
July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
Janie Jaehyun Park’s first book, The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon, won the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award and was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award in 2002. Her second, The Love of Two Stars, ... Read More »
July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
Katherine Govier’s new novel is a sprawling, richly researched historical novel, a chronicle of love and obsession in the 19th-century tradition of the grand pursuit. As the backdrop to this luminous, multilayered tale, the sea ... Read More »
July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
When Wayne Johnston released The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a few commentators took him to task for creating a fictional inner life for the very real Joey Smallwood and (in the opinion of some of ... Read More »
July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In his latest play, Cul-de-sac, playwright and performer Daniel MacIvor hits the ground running in the shape of a character named Leonard. Leonard lives in one of the six houses neatly tucked away in a ... Read More »
July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
On the heels of a double Governor General’s Award nomination in 2004 (for non-fiction and poetry), Jan Zwicky gives us her sixth collection of poems. The title might lead one to expect in this book ... Read More »
July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
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