The Fall of Gravity

Don’t suspend disbelief. Don’t arrest it, curtail it, or unfrock it. Disbelief is in the fine print scratched at the bottom of Leon Rooke’s literary contract. What the meta-narrator of The Fall of Gravity calls ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Purple for Sky

By Carol Bruneau

Imagine that you’re Lindy Hammond, a 63-year-old single woman in a depressed rural hamlet, looking after a wandering, 90-year-old aunt and running a seedy convenience store: what are your chances of finally finding love and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Robbiestime

By Don Dickinson

Robbiestime has some of the same characters who appeared in Don Dickinson’s first book, the short-story collection Fighting the Upstream. It also has some of that book’s old-fashioned Canadian qualities, such as a preoccupation with ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Make-a-saurus, My Life with Raptors and Other Dinosaurs

By Brian Cooley and Mary Ann Wilson

Here’s a dinosaur book with a twist. It’s written by two artists, one of whom, Brian Cooley, builds life-size dinosaur models for museum exhibits. Writing in the first person, Cooley uses the first half of ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Mummies

By Sylvia Funston, Joe Weissman, illus.

I had a hard time getting into Mummies, the latest in the Strange Science series from Owl Books. But that’s not because the book was dull – far from it. My difficulty lay in trying ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

What’s the Difference? 10 Animal Look-alikes

By Judy Diehl and David Plumb, Vlasta van Kampen, illus.

This husband-and-wife team’s first book (created in conjunction with the Canadian Museum of Nature) compares 10 pairs of similar-looking animals and helps young readers tell the difference between them. Many of the creatures chosen for ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure

By Maria Coffey with Debora Pearson, Dag Goering, photog.

Veteran adventure travel writer Maria Coffey has teamed up with her photographer husband, Dag Goering, and co-author Debora Pearson to produce this third book in Annick’s Adventure Travel series.The Solomon Islands (just off the northwest ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Cat’s Eye Corner

By Terry Griggs

Olivier’s visit to his grandfather’s house, Cat’s Eye Corner, is anything but humdrum. For one thing, people seem to think his new step-step-step-Gramma is a witch; certainly she does have a houseful of cats. Then ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Deals, Industry news

The Breadwinner

By Deborah Ellis

The eleven-year-old heroine of this fast-paced novel is old beyond her years and highly adaptive. Having grown up amidst bombed-out buildings and land mines in Kabul, Afghanistan, Parvana knows her way around dodgy circumstances. Yet ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

A Quest in Time

By Frieda Wishinsky, Bill Slavin, illus.

Two popular writers, Vancouver author Linda Bailey, best known for her award-winning Stevie Diamond comic mystery series, and Toronto-based Frieda Wishinsky, the author of seven children’s books, have turned to the plot device of time ... Read More »

February 17, 2004

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