The Curse of Jonathan Matthew

Long ago, in England, the villagers whispered.... They whispered about the hacked-up body of young Jonathan Matthew, about its disappearance from the church altar, and about a mysterious connection to royalty. But mainly they whispered ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Last Summer in Louisbourg

By Claire Mowat

After winning an essay contest about Canadian history, Andrea Baxter is bound for Cape Breton and a summer job at the Fortress of Louisbourg. Staff at this historic site re-enact life as it was lived ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Buried City of Pompeii

By Shelley Tanaka, Greg Ruhl, illus.

This is the third in the I Was There series of richly illustrated historical books. It follows Discovering the Iceman and On Board the Titanic and stakes out a definite niche for author Shelley Tanaka. Between ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Promise Song

By Linda Holeman

For more than 50 years, from 1868 to 1925, various schemes emptied the orphanages of Britain to provide the farms of Canada with cheap hired help. Many of these schemes, most notably those of Dr. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Home Child

By Barbara Haworth-Attard

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Wild Talk: How Animals Talk to Each Other (Amazing Things Animals Do Series)

By Marilyn Baillie, Romi Caron, illus.

A simple book is often the best showcase for a simple truth. Wild Talk: How Animals Talk to Each Other establishes clearly not only how animals communicate but also that they do so much as ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Trap Door to Heaven

By Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce is a writer who likes a wide scope, having written 40 books in his 40 years. Most of us, one suspects, would have run out of things to say long before book 40. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Let Me Be the One

By Elisabeth Harvor

Elisabeth Harvor published her first collection of short stories in 1973; her second, If Only We Could Live Like This Forever, appeared over a decade later after a literary silence fed by marital dissolution and ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Diamond Grill

By Fred Wah

Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill is a small gem of a book. Wah refers to the book as a “biotext”; the publisher calls it both “biofiction” and “biography.” Wah denies that it contains “true stories but, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Mice Will Play

By Edward O. Phillips

Montreal writer Edward O. Phillips has made a name for himself writing witty mysteries about Westmount. In his latest offering, The Mice Will Play, Phillips continues to mine his rich vein of Wildean wit. Protagonist ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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