Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys

With her new book, Crows, Saskatoon-based nature writer and historian Candace Savage turns her attention again to the world of crows and their corvine cousins (including magpies, jackdaws, and ravens). It’s territory she has mined ... Read More »

July 18, 2005 | Filed under: History

Eddie Longpants

By Mireille Levert

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

Caramba

By Marie-Louise Gay

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 Red Sash

By Jean E. Pendziwol; Nicolas Debon, illus.

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

Shi-shi-etko

By Nicola I. Campbell; Kim LaFave, illus.

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

The Way to Slumbertown

By Lucy Maud Montgomery; Rachel Bedard, illus.

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

The Nutcracker

By Karen Kain; Rajka Kupesic, illus.

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

★ The Love of Two Stars: A Korean Legend

By Janie Jaehyun Park

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

Three Views of Crystal Water

By Katherine Govier

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

Tattycoram

By Audrey Thomas

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

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