★ Beatrice Chancy

Beatrice Chancy defies categorization. On the surface, it’s an adaptation of a well-known murder story from 16th-century Rome. In 1598, a young woman named Beatrice Cenci killed her father after he raped her. Subsequently, her ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Kaddish for My Father

By Libby Scheier

Libby Scheier’s Kaddish for My Father brings together new and selected material from earlier collections. The first half of the volume includes new poetry and prose commemorating Scheier’s father, who died in 1997, and exploring ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The City of Yes

By Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva’s second novel, The City of Yes, is not so much one story as it is several individual tales, each threading seamlessly through the others in a meditation on storytelling itself. Set mainly in ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fits Like a Rubber Dress

By Roxane Ward

Roxane Ward’s debut novel has the trappings of a provocative story – there’s the teasing title and tastefully erotic cover – but the reality of this tale of one woman’s foray into Toronto’s underground is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jane

By Judy MacDonald

Judy MacDonald is such a flawless mimic of teenaged voices that this novel feels channelled, as if a group of ghostly high school students had started fooling around with a tape recorder in someone’s bedroom, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lean Mean Machines

By Michèle Marineau,Susan Ouriou, trans.

Lean Mean Machines is the story of Jeremy and Laure, two high school students who, in a twist on the boy-meets-girl standard, end up falling into a rocky friendship. Laure is a mysterious newcomer to ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Technology Book for Girls and Other Advanced Beings

By Trudee Romanek, Pat Cupples, illus.

Drawing at random from a bowl her teacher has filled with slips of paper, Gina selects the topic for her upcoming science project: “Advanced Technology in Our Everyday Lives.” So begins this book, third in ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Deals, Industry news

The Kids Can Press Jumbo Book of Music

By Deborah Dunleavy, Louise Phillips, illus.

Drawing on Dunleavy’s 20 years of experience conducting music workshops for children, this book takes a grass-roots approach – music kids can make themselves, without buying instruments or taking lessons. Homemade instruments, mostly different types ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

★ The Kids Book of Golf

By John Gordon

Everyone knows by now that the Tiger Woods explosion that began a few years back has completely changed the sport of golf – and nearly everyone agrees that the change has been for the better. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Song of the Sea: Myths, Tales, and Folklore

By Ann Spencer, Mark Lang, illus.

Whatever happened to fairy tale collections? The 398.2 section of the library used to be crowded with fat dense books with titles like Fairy Tales Told in Spain and Grandfather Tales. Then picture book versions ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Events

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