Emma is a free range hen in the truest sense of the term. The chicken coop is available for her pleasure, but she also has the run of the family farm and even the house. ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The animal story is about as classic a genre as there is. Between the covers of a great animal story, the reader experiences most of literature’s greatest hooks – a valiant character, at least one ... Read More »
March 16, 2004
Oliver and his family are having a hard time in Fort William. His father brought them to the head of Lake Superior from Liverpool in the 1870s, imagining he could make his living as a ... Read More »
March 16, 2004
After reading the first line of Awake and Dreaming, an “Ahhh...” escapes. Relax; if you’re nine or 90 you’re in superb hands. We’re introduced to Cecily Stone, a former children’s writer, and a glorious ghost ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
When her grandmother dies at the age of 96, 12-year-old Emily faces a double loss – no adult in the family wants the Saskatchewan farm where her grandmother spent her life, and it seems it ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
There Will Be Wolves, young-adult author Karleen Bradford’s award-winning 1992 novel, revolves around the People’s Crusade of 1096 – an ill-fated mission to return Jerusalem to Christian rule. The sequel, Shadows on a Sword, picks ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
When the Inuit arrived in the Canadian Arctic 1,000 years ago, they found the Tunit, a race of strong, peaceful giants who were easily driven from the best hunting grounds and soon disappeared, marking the ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples
In his new book, Rupert Ross, who spent 14 years working as a member of the Canadian mainstream legal system in northwestern Ontario, describes the ongoing struggle in native communities to develop a system of ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples
To call romantic fiction pap is to miss the point business historian and journalist Paul Grescoe makes – that turning mush into millions is a great story on its own. From the birth of Harlequin ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In Lord High Executioner, Toronto mystery-writer Howard Engel makes his first foray into non-fiction by providing an historical overview of judicially endorsed agents of death. Though candidly admitting he believes capital punishment ought to be ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
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