★ Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei

By Pain Not Bread (Roo Borson,Kim Maltman, Andy Patton)

A book 10 years in the making is, like a good single malt, worth savouring. That’s particularly true for Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, given the time invested by the poets Roo Borson ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Only Outcast

By Julie Johnston

This assured YA novel by award-winning author Julie Johnston (Hero of Lesser Causes, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me) is loosely based on a real diary recorded by 16-year-old Fred Dickinson at his family cottage on ... Read More »

February 19, 2004

Drowning in Secrets

By Brenda Bellingham, Ginette Beaulieu, illus.

Family secrets are fertile subject matter for both novels and thrillers, and Brenda Bellingham’s suspenseful Drowning in Secrets combines the two genres in a gripping story for young adults. Sixteen-year-old Chloe experiences nightmares and panic ... Read More »

February 19, 2004

The Maclean’s Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture

By Tom Henighan

Ever wondered about the most popular Canadian books ever? According to Carleton University English professor and cultural critic Tom Henighan, the top 25 all-time fiction bestsellers include Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes, Gabrielle Roy’s The Tin ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Ghouls’ Night Out

By Janice MacDonald, Pamela Breeze Currie, illus.

Annalise the witch, Ernie the ghost, and Milton the skeleton live happily together in a haunted house where they keep up appearances by smearing dirt on the windows, peeling the paint from the boards, and ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage

By Meeka Walsh, ed

Many people have trouble with the work of Winnipeg photographer Diana Thorneycroft. While her staged black-and-white portraits may be gorgeously rich in texture and composition, every one of them confronts our moral and ethical senses ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Miss Meow Pageant

By Richardo Keens-Douglas, Marie Lafrance, illus.

The Miss Meow Pageant, the fifth book from Toronto writer and storyteller Richardo Keens-Douglas, is the story of Henrietta’s cat, Sparrow, one of the ugliest cats in the feline world. Things change for Sparrow when ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Zest for Life: Classic Dishes for Family and Friends from the Fifties to the Nineties

By Diane Clement

Ostensibly, Zest for Life is a cookbook hybridized with the autobiography of Vancouver chef, restaurateur, and former Canadian Olympian Diane Clement. But like most tools designed for two jobs, it does neither particularly well, and ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Boy in the Attic

By Paul Yee, Gu Xiong, illus.

In this latest book by Paul Yee, who chronicles the Chinese Canadian experience so well, Kai-ming, a seven-year-old newly immigrated from a Chinese village, befriends the ghost of seven-year-old Benjamin, who died in the same ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Swissair Down: Investigating the Crash of Flight 111

By Don Ledger

By now, most people have absorbed the popular wisdom that when a butterfly flaps its wings on the other side of the world, such minuscule turbulence can initiate a chain of unforeseen effects, resulting in ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

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