Erik the Viking Sheep

By Elizabeth Creith, Linda Hendry, illus.

Erik, an Icelandic sheep with red wool, arrives at the sheep farm one day. After listening to a little girl’s stories about the Vikings, he starts to imagine that he is Erik the Viking Sheep, ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Anything for a Laugh

By Eric Nicol

Memoirs are reader favourites, especially those that delve into salacious confession. The more gender bending, spouse swapping, and drug-taking the author exposes, the more copies they sell. Anything for a Laugh, award-winning author and humorist ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

By Michael Ignatieff

The main challenge of capturing Isaiah Berlin as a biographical subject is that he was a talker. Philosophers are said to privilege the spoken over the written word, but even among his philosophical peers his ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist

By Denis Sampson

Early in his memoir Barry Callaghan describes his younger self standing outside his house, gazing at an upper window where his father, novelist Morley Callaghan, is at work. It is nighttime and Callaghan père appears ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Barrelhouse Kings: A Memoir

By Barry Callaghan

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Alligator Baby

By Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko, illus.

One night, Kirsten’s mother wakes up in labour, yelling, “I’m having a baby, I’m having a baby.” Kirsten’s parents get lost on the way to the hospital, and her mother gives birth at the zoo. ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Divide

By Michael Bedard, Emily Arnold McCully, illus.

In 1883, when Willa Cather was nine years old, her family moved from Virginia to an isolated Nebraska farm on the Divide, a broad plateau between the Little Blue and Republican rivers. This long, uncomfortable ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Trudeau’s Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Elliot Trudeau

By Andrew Cohen and J.L. Granatstein,eds.

Edited by journalist Andrew Cohen and historian J.L. Granatstein, Trudeau’s Shadow is a collection of newly commissioned essays on the former prime minister from a broad range of sources, including actress Linda Griffiths, former Ontario ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Pamela Wallin: A Memoir

By Pamela Wallin

Pamela Wallin has the storytelling component down pat: it's sheer David and Goliath. Wallin is a westerner bringing common sense to public discourse in the eastern centres of public discourse. She is a woman forging ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Trivia Pursuit: How Showbiz Values Are Corrupting the News

By Knowlton Nash

“Headless body in topless bar.” According to Knowlton Nash, that lurid headline from the New York Post symbolizes the dismal future of journalism. Newspapers, television, and radio are abandoning whatever commitment they had to educating ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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