Proud

Anyone who’s read the liner notes from a favourite record or CD knows how flat and even clumsy song lyrics can sound alone on paper. Yet children’s songs are often produced in picturebook form. When ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Counting Feathers

By Al Simmons, Brian Floca, illus.

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Snow Story

By Nancy Hundal, Kasia Charko, illus.

This book has “beautiful” written all over it, full of deep snowdrifts and cozy three-storey Victorian houses with your own beautiful room at the top. Written in the lyrical style of Hundal’s award-winning I Heard ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Final Game

By William Roy Brownridge

The story of the Moccasin Goalie continues: Danny, Petou, and Anita have been asked to play for the Wolves, and the team has made it to the finals. That alone should prove the three are ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Widow for One Year

By John Irving

“My novels aren’t ideas...I begin with the characters, which leads me to the problems that the characters are prone to have, which yields a story – every time.” The speaker here is Ruth Cole, one ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lifetimes

By David L. Rice

This concept book is rooted in the notion that all species, with their biologically programmed time for living and dying, contribute to the richness of the planet. Two dozen elements of nature are highlighted and ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

The Good, the Bad and the Suicidal

By Beth Goobie

“Ever feel as if the cosmos farted and you were born?” are the opening first words of 16-year-old Dariel in The Good, the Bad and the Suicidal. This girl knows exactly who she is – ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

The Wise and Foolish Virgins

By Don Hannah

Don Hannah’s first novel The Wise and Foolish Virgins is one of this year’s selections in Knopf Canada’s “New Face of Fiction” series. Knopf’s annual spring campaign to uncover the next CanLit rising star has ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Circle in Time

By Peggy Dymond Leavey

Trenton, Ontario, is now a small sleepy town in eastern Ontario with an air force base. For a short period between 1917 and 1934 it supported a silent film industry, which turned out government films ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

The Faces of Fear

By Monica Hughes

After a car accident leaves 15-year-old Joan Sandow without the use of her legs, Joan’s world looks pretty bleak. So when she and her Internet buddy, Steve (alias Whizkid), get a chance to test a ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

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