Island of the Human Heart: Tales of a Traveller

Island of the Human Heart, like most good contemporary travel writing, is a self-reflection told in the format of a narrative that describes the wanderer’s response to the genius loci with a keen eye for ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada

By W.H. New

Do Canadians think of themselves only in terms of northern limits, oceanic rims, and the 49th parallel? Do they see the Canada-U.S. border as simply a line to cross in order to enjoy a commerce ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman

By Rudy Wiebe & Yvonne Johnson

Rudy Wiebe won the 1973 Governor General’s Award for Fiction for The Temptations of Big Bear, a book he wrote about Yvonne Johnson’s great-great-grandfather, the eponymous Plains Cree chief. Twenty-five years later, Wiebe and Johnson ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Cape Breton Road

By D.R. MacDonald

Eyestone, the debut collection of short fiction by D.R. MacDonald, was the sort of book to make readers hold their collective breath. Nearly flawless in its own right, its publication in 1988 – an occasion ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Makin’ Muffins

By Susan Devins, Yvonne Cathcart, illus.

Whatever excellent taste they may promise, recipes for kids must be straightforward, precise, and leave little to the imagination.Bake It and Build It, a kind of edible architecture for the oven, certainly woos the prospective ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Bake It and Build It

By Elizabeth MacLeod, Tracy Walkeri, llus.

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Prairie Fire!

By Bill Freeman

Prairie Fire! tells how the Bains family, homesteading in Manitoba in the 1870s, find themselves in the middle of a dispute between other settlers and the Métis who roam the land – a dispute that ... Read More »

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

Snake Dreamer

By Priscilla Galloway

Priscilla Galloway’s Snake Dreamer is faithfully evoked in cover artist Janet Wooley’s collage of beautiful and monstrous faces, crumbling temples, barren seashores, and sinuous serpents against a wash of intense Mediterranean blue. The story begins ... Read More »

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

★ Greater than Angels

By Carol Matas

It is the early 1940s, in Vichy France, and a number of Jewish teenagers, having lost nearly everything of their former lives and beliefs, are sitting on the porch of a Red Cross shelter and ... Read More »

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

Rose by Night

By Mireille Levert

Little Rose Redberry’s bedtime routine involves a drink, which leads to a sudden wakeup later when she needs to “pee so bad.” Easier said than done. Rose’s boisterous, colourful bedroom is fraught with danger. A ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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