Fodor’s Around Toronto with Kids

Fodor’s Around Toronto with Kids by Kate Pocock is the latest in a wave of kid-centred Toronto guides, following on the heels of Lobster Press’s Toronto guide by Natalie Comeau, Anne Holloway’s Toronto with Kids, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

The Sex Book: An Alphabet of Smarter Love

By Jane Pavanel, Grant Cunningham, illus.

This glossary-style book about sex and related issues for teens is intended to be an everything - you - need - to - know - about - sex book. Jane Pavanel, a Montreal children’s book ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Why? the Best Ever Question and Answer Book About Nature, Science, and the World Around You

By Catherine Ripley, Scot Ritchie, illus.

Why? is actually a compilation of six previously published books by the Ripley-Ritchie team. The books were inspired by questions sent to Ripley when she was the editor of Chickadee magazine. Rather than simply list ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

★ Arousing the Goddess

By Tim Ward

Susan Sontag concludes her essay, “Against Interpretation,” with an admonition to critics: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” I thought of Sontag’s essay while reading Tim Ward’s wonderful new novel, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Make Cool Gadgets for Your Room

By Amy Pinchuk, Teco Rodrigues, illus.

I assumed from the title that this book might be about making cute papier-mâché mobiles. However, this – the second title of the new Popular Mechanics for Kids series – is about making mechanical gadgets ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

★ Volcano!

By Cynthia Pratt Nicolson

Volcano! recounts the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, then highlights volcanic sites around the world, from the “cinder cones” of Iceland and flat “shield volcanoes” of Hawaii, to the killer mud-floods of Colombia ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Gryphon

By Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine series takes a new twist in The Gryphon with the introduction of two new correspondents, Matthew and Isabella. The book features letters and cards between Sabine and Matthew, Griffin and ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sex of the Stars

By Monique Proulx, Matt Cohen, trans.

One of the most interesting authors to emerge from Quebec in recent years, Monique Proulx writes for radio, television, and films in addition to her award-winning fiction. She won two literary prizes for her 1983 ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Hornbooks of Rita K.

By Robert Kroetsch

Margaret Atwood once said the four-letter epithet most dreadful to a writer’s ears is the word “icon.” Consider Robert Kroetsch, equipped with his first new book of poems in 10 years. How can his new ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Slant

By Andy Quan

The title of this debut poetry collection is an evocative pun on author Andy Quan’s varied perspectives – that of an Asian-Canadian whose eyes are “slanted”; of a gay man whose sensual interest is “bent” ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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