The Alchemist’s Song

In this first novel from David Wyn Roberts, The Globe and Mail’ s Manitoba bureau chief, the author draws on his Welsh heritage and his experiences working as a journalist around the world.The Alchemist’s Song ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sleeping Boy

By Barbara J. Stewart

The strongest presence in The Sleeping Boy is not a character but a town: Barbara Stewart’s Belford is a rusted Midwestern industrial “museum of leftovers,” distinguished by its gray river, struggling populace, and corrupt old-money ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Of Wine and Water: A Novel

By Robert Bell

Robert Bell’s first novel, Of Wine and Water, begins in 1916 and covers some 20 years in the life of Albra and Gabe, two soul mates who grow up in the industrial city of Hamilton ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Each One Special

By Frieda Wishinsky, H. Werner Zimmermann, illus.

Harry the cake decorator makes “marzipan toes on twirling ballerinas…and caramel trains chugging down chocolate tracks,” to the delight of his customers and his after-school friend, Ben. When new owners demand “young bakers, not old,” ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

No Claim to Mercy: A Suburban Mystery

By Derek Finkle

In recent years the wrongful convictions of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, and Guy Paul Morin have captured newspaper headlines across the country. In No Claim to Mercy, journalist Derek Finkle examines the justice system responsible ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pirate Pearl

By Phoebe Gilman

When Captain Plunk recovers a floating treasure chest from a ship that has just been sunk, he and his rascally crew are astonished and dismayed to find that it contains not precious pearls but Precious ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dreams Are More Real than Bathtubs

By Susan Musgrave, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Many families treasure the precocious sayings of their very young, later bringing them out on public occasions to the chagrin of the original speaker. Poets’ families no doubt accumulate better bon mots than most; thus ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Baboo: The Story of Sir John A. Macdonald’s Daughter

By Ainslie Manson, Bill Wand, illus.

Ainslie Manson is well known for fine historical picture books such as A Dog Came, Too and Just Like New. Her latest, a picture-book biography of Sir John A. Macdonald’s disabled daughter, Mary, is not ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Fog Cat

By Marilyn Helmer, Paul Mombourquette, illus.

As we know from The Little Prince, taming an animal (or flower) is an emotional process. Fog Cat chronicles young Hannah’s attempts to tame a cat living wild by the sea. Hannah lives with her ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

One More Border: The True Story of One Family’s Escape from War-Torn Europe

By William Kaplan with Shelley Tanaka, Stephen Taylor, illus.

We take this journey through the eyes of William Kaplan’s father, Igor, who was nine years old when he escaped with his little sister and parents from Lithuania in 1940. As Igor’s Jewish parents feel ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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