The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean

There is a lovely shorter book in The Last Great Sea – or several different shorter books. As it is, too much of the material here strays from Glavin’s theme, passages and ideas are repeated, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

What Will the Robin Do Then?: Winter Tales

By Jean Little

The title of Jean Little’s newest book, What Will the Robin Do Then?, is taken from a nursery rhyme whose next words are “poor thing.” Little’s children could often be best described at first as ... Read More »

February 16, 2004

The Golden Thread: A Reader’s Journey Through the Great Books

By Bruce Meyer

By now, Canadians devoted to CBC Radio will know Toronto poet and academic Bruce Meyer from his regular book talks with This Morning host Michael Enright, even if they have never read any of the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

A Place Like Any Other: Sabbath Blessings

By Molly Wolf

Molly Wolf offers spirituality from Kemptville, a town just south of Ottawa. Kemptville is a “place like any other,” but Wolf is not a typical thinker and these are no routine thoughts. Here are luminous ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen

By Mark Kingwell

Mark Kingwell – political and cultural theorist, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto – has authored four previous learned books, including Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac. In The ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Walking Stick

By Maxine Trottier, Annouchka Gravel Galouchko, illus.

Van is a Vietnamese boy who can “see what is beyond the next hill.” When he finds a teak stick in the forest near a holy temple, he recognizes the stick’s spiritual worth. Blessed by ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mister Once-upon-a-time

By Rémy Simard, Pierre Pratt, illus., David Homel, trans.

Once upon a time, Rémy Simard’s latest picture book begins, in a village far, far away, the people had only one thing to do, and that was to tell stories. Then, one afternoon, a tiny ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Sinbad: From the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights

By Ludmila Zeman

The marvellous adventures of Sindbad the Sailor are among the world’s great stories and this new picture book retelling is a welcome addition to the many versions of the tales of A Thousand and One ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ In the Sweet Kitchen: The Definitive Guide to the Baker’s Pantry

By Regan Daley

Never mind that the second 340 pages of Regan Daley’s In the Sweet Kitchen hold enough recipes to encompass most (though not all) baking techniques. A comprehensive treatment of baking and dessert-cookery technique was not, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ Coyote Sings to the Moon

By Thomas King, Johnny Wales, illus.

Old Woman sings to the moon every night, and the other animals decide to join her in song. But when Coyote tries to sing along, everyone begs him not to because of his awful singing ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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