Spider’s Web

Don Tapscott (Growing Up Digital) suggests that use of the Internet is changing the way children actually think. Mary Beaty, frequent contributor to these pages, makes a convincing case that the Internet is a sort ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Racing Worm Brothers

By Gary Barwin, Kitty Macaulay, illus.

Aaron is allergic to every pet except goldfish. But he doesn’t want a goldfish – he wants something he can pat. His brother Ryan suggests they find some worms to keep as pets. Before long, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Too Tough to Cry: A True Story of Crime and Redemption by the Man Who Inspired the Poem Footprints

By Paul Powers

Paul Powers has had the type of life of which television movies are made. Minutes after he watched his mother die, the seven-year-old was beaten by his alcoholic father for crying over her death. Shortly ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Bambi and Me

By Michel Tremblay

Playwright Michel Tremblay’s book offers a dozen pieces, ranging from a short sentimental statement (which gives the book its title) to anecdotal satiric narratives about his boyhood, and adolescent pleasures at the movies. He reminisces ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Beneath That Starry Place

By Terry Jordan

There’s the story, and then there’s the story telling. In most novels, one outshines the other. Terry Jordan, however, confounds us if we attempt to choose one over the other in this, his first full-length ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape

By Pamela Banting, ed.

How does the land shape our perceptions of the world? In her introduction to this intriguing anthology of essays, poems, stories, and memoirs, Pamela Banting suggests that writers in western Canada are increasingly eager to ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Last Manly Man: A Robin Hudson Mystery

By Sparkle Hayter

With The Last Manly Man, the fourth Robin Hudson mystery, Sparkle Hayter joins the ranks of successful serial crime writers. While Hayter’s work is uniquely picaresque and far less formulaic than the average female-authored mystery, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sudden Blow: A Jane Yeats Mystery

By Liz Brady

If you’re a fan of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, you’ll probably enjoy Liz Brady’s first Jane Yeats novel, Sudden Blow. Yeats, a Toronto based writer turned amateur detective, has a similar eternal tomboy image. When ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Debriefing the Rose

By Mary di Michele

In her new collection, Montreal poet Mary di Michele explores how we can often feel a stronger connection to writers or artists of the past than to people in the present. Di Michele effortlessly travels ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Autobiography of Red

By Anne Carson

Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson is better known in the U.S. than in Canada, and her work has been championed by American writers such as Susan Sontag and Annie Dillard. In Autobiography of Red, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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