February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
The African Safari Papers, documentary filmmaker Robert Sedlack’s first novel, is the fictional record of 19-year-old Richard Clark’s journey through Kenya with his alcoholic father and psychologically precarious mother. Young Richard intends to write a ... Read More »
British Columbia author Andrea Spalding’s latest is a sensitive tale about gardens, growing sunflowers, the importance of memories, and the rewards of friendship.The narrator, Ian, is a prairie boy who, when his parents separate, moves ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Despite the numerous death-of-fiction pronouncements made over the last half-century, some writers continue to search for ways to reanimate the form. Toronto’s Sheila Heti is one such writer. In her first collection of fiction she ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
In Bear On the Train, a hungry bear follows the smell of grain right into a railway car. By the time the train pulls out, the bear is ready to hibernate and sleeps through the ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Inukshuks – those strange human-like figures of piled rocks that are such a distinctive emblem of the Canadian Arctic – provide a centre for Maxine Trottier’s haunting story of a young boy lost in the ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Linda Rogers’ latest collection of poems is a delicate masterwork of brutality, a rich evocation of the tragedy and magic of human existence. Little prepares the reader for the intensity and deep pleasure The Saning ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Bud Osborn is one of those rare poets with something important to say. And we should listen. In fact, Hundred Block Rock should be required reading for every CEO in North America … not to ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Anthropologist Jean Liedloff, in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, bemoans the fact that Western parents are so out of touch with their natural instincts about parenting that they have to consult books written by ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Anthropologist Jean Liedloff, in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, bemoans the fact that Western parents are so out of touch with their natural instincts about parenting that they have to consult books written by ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Futurist Richard Worzel’s take on becoming an entrepreneur is that it’s as much a matter of inner preparation as an ability to seize on a market or a product. Accordingly, his book is a compendium ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help