Calendar Boy

Andy Quan’s preferred style in Calendar Boy, his debut collection of short stories, is the confessional. It’s a voice that is especially popular in queer fiction, in part because many queer writers are interested in ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Pool Hopping and Other Stories

By Anne Fleming

Pool Hopping is a first collection of short stories by Vancouver writer Anne Fleming. Most of the stories are set in Toronto (where Fleming spent her youth), and reflect an atmosphere in which every act ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

More Minds

By Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman

In Of Two Minds, the first book in the Minds series of fantasy adventures, Princess Lenora of Gepeth and her fiancé, Prince Coren of Andilla, join forces to save the land of Grag from a ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

Disconnected

By Shelly Hrdlitschka

Fourteen-year-old Tanner Bolton has a happy life in Edmonton, but has a disturbing recurring dream of swimming in the ocean, something he has never done. Meanwhile, in a small town on Vancouver Island, Alex Swanson, ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

The Brideship

By Joan Weir

Set in 1862, The Brideship charts the adventures of three British orphans: 15-year-old Sarah, her frail cousin Maud, and Sarah’s irrepressible Cockney friend, Lizzie. With 37 other orphan girls, they are selected for jobs in ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

The Way to Schenectady

By Richard Scrimger, Linda Hendry, illus.

Richard Scrimger’s second children’s novel, The Way to Schenectady, is a hilarious account of a family’s car trip that captures the tradition, friction, and inevitable detours that accompany this annual summer ritual.Thirteen-year-old Jane Peeler is ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

★ The Story Box

By Monica Hughes

A place where stories are forbidden, where all of life is dedicated to practical tasks, and where children are punished for speaking of their dreams – such is the world created by Monica Hughes in ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

The Christmas Orange

By Don Gillmor, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

For most Christians, Christmas is dominated by tradition: above all by family gatherings complete with the decorated tree, dinner with all the trimmings, and presents. Margaret Laurence’s Christmas story, The Olden Days Coat, first published ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Olden Days Coat

By Margaret Laurence, Muriel Wood, illus.

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Baby Science: How Babies Really Work

By Ann Douglas, Hélène Desputeaux, illus.

The first year of a baby’s life is one full of excitement and discovery: this is the message Ann Douglas conveys in her book Baby Science. Aiming her book at young observers – siblings between ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

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