The Railways

When a history of the building of railways across Canada includes information about eccentric people and unusual occurrences, that history can be fascinating. Fortunately, Robert Livesey includes both in Railways, his sixth book in a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Field of Thunder

By Rose Flem-Ath

Field of Thunder is a timely thriller, the threat of biological warfare in the Middle East serving as its central theme. Author Rose Flem-Ath has taken on a complex story that opens with secret British ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grave Danger

By Gisela Tobien Sherman

This tale, Sherman’s fifth novel, begins on Cassie Denning’s 16th birthday as she films the dawn and thinks of the future. However, mysterious events soon disrupt her life. Rumours about her wild dancing, at times ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Trapped in Ice

By Eric Walters

An adventure story, Trapped in Ice is a fictionalized account of a real 1913 Canadian Arctic expedition that included a 13-year-old girl, Helen, her younger brother, and their seamstress mother. The expedition ran into trouble ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

The Crying Jesus

By R.P. MacIntyre

A good short story doesn’t draw you in – it doesn’t have the time. You have to park your own world and enter the characters’ by the end of the first page. In this, his ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold

By France Daigle, Robert Majzels, trans.

Readers who enjoyed the vivid scenes in France Daigle’s Real Life (winner of the 1991 Pascal Poirier Award), will find two characters they met there, Elizabeth, the physician, and Claude, the masseur, in Daigle’s latest ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Moonkid and Prometheus

By Paul Kropp

Nine years ago, YA readers were treated to the antics of Moonkid and his spirited sister in Paul Kropp’s Moonkid and Liberty. Two years have passed in the telescoped world of fiction. Ian “Moonkid” McNaughton ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

★ Dragonfire

By Karleen Bradford

Karleen Bradford’s latest novel draws upon medieval cosmology, Jungian psychology, and classic adventure-suspense to produce an intelligent and entertaining fantasy for young readers. The hero of this quest romance is 17-year-old Dahl, an orphan who ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Auld Lang Syne

By Joanne Findon, Ted Nasmith, illus.

Auld Lang Syne, Joanne Findon’s second picture book (following The Dream of Aengus), is a gentle account of episodes in the life of poet Robert Burns, highlighting his adaptation of the traditional Scottish song sung ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Come to the Fair

By Janet Lunn, Gilles Pelletier, illus.

A day at a country harvest fair for the Martin family provides the structure for Janet Lunn’s latest picture book. Lunn lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario; illustrator Gilles Pelletier in Ormstown, Quebec. Both know ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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