Diamonds in the Rough

A number of years ago, one of the most interesting phenomena associated with Canadian young people’s literature was the number of women writing highly successful young adult fiction featuring male protagonists. Today, one of the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Good-Bye Marianne

By Irene N. Watts

One moment 11-year-old Marianne is heading off to school, stewing over an upcoming math test; the next she finds the school doors closed to her and ordinary life finished. For a Jewish child growing up ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Northern Frights 4

By Don Hutchison,ed.

The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold. Having written those lines, Robert Service opened the cremation chamber door to a chilling sub-genre of horror fiction: terror in the Canadian ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Foolish Men of Agra and Other Tales of Mogul India

By Rina Singh, Farida Zaman, illus.

Akbar was a Mogul emperor of India who ruled between 1556 and 1605. The Moguls were Moslem, and Akbar is remembered, not only for consolidating the empire begun by his grandfather, but for winning acceptance ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Finding the Enemy

By Mary Soderstrom

These 14 linked short stories touch upon the lives of Stewart and Dorothy Rice, their four children, and June, at first a seemingly unrelated character, from the end of the Second World War until the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Charlotte

By Janet Lunn, Brian Deines, illus.

As her many fans well know, Janet Lunn is an aficionado of both American and Canadian history. Her YA novels Shadow in Hawthorn Bay, The Root Cellar, and The Hollow Tree attest to her historicity ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Vital Signs: New Women Writers in Canada

By Diane Schoemperlen,ed.

Short fiction – recently mourned as something no one was reading much any more – appears to be undergoing a renaissance among Canadian writers, and many of the newest and smartest practitioners of these compressed ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Big City/ Big Country Counting Book

By Ian Crysler

Just when you thought there could be nothing new in counting books, along comes this one by photographer Ian Crysler. He takes the tried-and-true city/country dichotomy and plays with it visually. The result is a ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pig Iron

By Paul Davies

Pig Iron, by Ontario writer and ECW designer Paul Davies, is the story of a car, a 31-foot crimson streamliner that may set a new wheel-driven, land-speed world record in 1968. During its design, construction, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Catalogue

By Sheila Dalton, Kim LaFave, illus.

Two years ago poet Sheila Dalton and illustrator Kim LaFave created Doggerel, a jaunty rhyming picture book about all sorts of dogs, and this spring they’ve followed it with a similarly jaunty book about cats. ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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