Sarah Ellis’s Back of Beyond contains 12 stories diverse in tone and content, from “Gore,” a giddy take on the popular horror novelist “R.L. Tankard,” to “Potato,” a touching portrait of a young girl whose ... Read More »
March 10, 2004
Sarah Ellis’s Back of Beyond contains 12 stories diverse in tone and content, from “Gore,” a giddy take on the popular horror novelist “R.L. Tankard,” to “Potato,” a touching portrait of a young girl whose ... Read More »
March 10, 2004
Weary and broken, 15-year-old Ruth Mendenberg struggles back to her family home in Poland. Though she’s somehow survived Buchenwald concentration camp, Ruth fears that most of her family was slaughtered at Auschwitz. Still, she dares ... Read More »
March 10, 2004
Mary Wallace has really good ideas, and her craft books in the So Easy To Make series – I Can Make Toys, Puppets, Gifts, etc. – are original and appealing. She knows the craft genre ... Read More »
March 10, 2004
Author Michael Seary has written a how-to-draw book with instructions on how to produce a reasonable likeness of an object. He calls this art and the draftspeople who draw in this manner, artists. Seary doesn’t ... Read More »
March 10, 2004
If you’re not a fan of bugs, this book may bring about a change of heart. Between the lively rhythms of Oppenheim’s free verse and Broda’s intricately beautiful paper sculptures, these bugs are bound to ... Read More »
March 10, 2004
The Secret Under the Whirlpool describes the lives of Acadians eking out an existence on Prince Edward Island in 1757, just before their deportation. The author uses the familiar device of time travel to deposit ... Read More »
March 10, 2004
Melody decides she wants to be good at something, so begins taking lessons – skating, skiing, ballet, and more. Unfortunately, she doesn’t like most of them. Finally she finds something she enjoys: tuba lessons!This goofy ... Read More »
March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Sasha loves the wind, and so do his friends, but after two fire alarms force Sasha’s class out into a blowing snowstorm, Sasha becomes frightened of the wind. He isn’t able to relax until he ... Read More »
March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Allen Sapp’s paintings of Cree life in the Saskatchewan prairies during the 1930s and 40s are all about lyrical nostalgia, but the self-taught artist is so unabashed in his remembrance of the way things were, ... Read More »
March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
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