In my experience – and I’m a sucker for a good laugh – comedy relies on two conditions. One is a particular form of collusion between writer and reader. The other is a sense of ... Read More »
February 13, 2004
Hannah and the Seven Dresses,/I> is an amusing, colourful book with a simple and satisfying story – just about the hardest kind to create. For her first picture book, Jocelyn (who’s a clothing designer and ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
On the evening of Chinese New Year, a little girl cowers in her grandmother’s arms, afraid of the fireworks outside. To comfort her, the grandmother tells the story of how New Year celebrations began. Long ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
In Toronto writer Michael Bedard’s latest picture book, a grandmother tells her grandson about meeting Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, the “Clay Ladies” of the title. Loring and Wyle were artists – sculptors who lived ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Ian Wallace’s latest picture book is a tribute to the men who go underground, earning their living as coal miners. It is also a reminder of a time, not so long ago, when children left ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books
Born in Newfoundland and raised in the Ottawa Valley, Toronto resident Ken Babstock revisits these regions, and the more general region of human nature, in a debut collection of poems as highly accomplished technically as ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
It’s no longer enough for a cookbook to be chock-full of inspiring recipes and helpful kitchen hints. In the age of Martha Stewart, complicated concoctions that few have the time to make are lushly presented ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink
In the best of all possible worlds people would never have to go out on dates. Instead, fate would finally start living up to its name and everyone would pair up naturally through work or ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help
The fastest growing segment of the self-employed market in Canada today is composed of women. Female entrepreneurs are at the leading edge of our economy’s knowledge workers and are launching their own businesses in record ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Vernon Frolick, a criminal prosecutor in British Columbia, tackles the biography of Chuck Fipke, the man who proved that there were commercial diamonds in Canada.Fipke is a driven man. Working in unbelievably remote areas of ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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