How Did You Sleep?

A collection of short stories can act as a haunted house (seemingly unlinked episodes building to a larger effect or vision), a flea market (a random assembling of used items and leftovers), or, as in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Two Much Alike

By Bernice Thurman Hunter

Some novels captivate us with a gripping premise and rocket-powered plot. Others charm us more quietly – though no less pleasurably – with a small, domestic, character-driven story that relies not on external pyrotechnics but ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Vanilla and Other Stories

By Candas Jane Dorsey

When Candas Jane Dorsey says “vanilla” she’s not talking about ice cream. She’s referring to sex, of the plain and straightforward variety, and she’s pushing her readers to think about other, less predictable ways of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Topher

By Anita Horrocks

In Topher, seven-year-old Stacie and her 13-year-old brother, Chris, go on holiday with their father at Christopher Lake, in northern Saskatchewan, a spot their father hasn’t visited since his brother drowned there 30 years ago. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Native Crafts

By Maxine Trottier, Esperança Melo, illus

A generation back, when we kids dressed up as hunter-gatherers and prowled our backyards with bows and arrows, a book like this would have permitted great technological advances on fringed brown-paper jerkins. Following Trottier’s simple ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Kids Can Press Jumbo Book of Gardening

By Karyn Morris, Jane Kurisu, illus.

With these two books, Kids Can launches a new jumbo information book series that’s right on target. Rather than presenting cooking as a social experience designed for rainy days, the cookbook takes a more comprehensive ... Read More »

February 23, 2004

The Kids Can Press Jumbo Cookbook

By Judi Gillies and Jennifer Glossop, Louise Phillips, illus.

February 23, 2004

Oxygen

By Annabel Lyon

What’s happening in Vancouver? The availability of high-grade espresso may be responsible, but the city’s newest fiction writers are certainly subverting the regional stereotype of West Coast mellow. The past couple of years have seen ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Book of You: The Science and Fun of Why You Look, Feel, and Act the Way You Do

By Sylvia Funston, Susanna Denti, illus.

"Every man…represents the unique.” This line from Hermann Hesse’s prologue to Demian might well have been the inspiration for Sylvia Funston’s book. Writing in an upbeat style, the author explains how each person’s physical characteristics, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Pull Gently, Tear Here

By Alexandra Leggat

The motives that compel a writer to create very short fiction are various, but whatever the reason for a story’s length, one rule remains constant: the fewer the words, the more crucial each one becomes. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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