The La Fenice Cookbook: Luigi’s Passion

By Luigi Orgera,Sally Doulis, and Colleen Mathieu

Much like David Rocco’s recent excellent cookbook, Avventura, for which Rocco toured Italy gathering recipes from local chefs, the strength of The La Fenice Cookbook, by Luigi Orgera, is its authenticity. Orgera, who died last ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Summer King

By O.R. Melling

O.R. Melling’s accomplished fantasy The Summer King, a follow-up to The Hunter’s Moon, economically creates several vivid worlds – modern Ireland, Faerie, and the Renaissance high seas.Laurel, a sporty, pragmatic teenager, spends the summer in ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Loyal No More: Ontario’s Struggle for a Separate Identity

By John Ibbitson

John Ibbitson, a columnist with the Globe and Mail, is a brave writer. While he could have limited the scope of Loyal No More to the current impasse between Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill, Ibbitson ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

In My Enemy’s House

By Carol Matas

Within a historical novel, the Holocaust exerts the gravitational force of a black hole. As a reader, you’re instantly caught in its grip, all your emotions – incredulity, rage, despair, and hope – intensely evoked. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

What’s Left Us

By Aislinn Hunter

The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Load ’em Up Trucks

By Debora Pearson, Chum McLeod, illus.

Young children’s – more accurately, young boys’ – fascination with big machinery, cars, trucks, and “things that go” is well known in children’s book publishing, and Annick has launched a new series to cater to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

All the Seas of the World

By Gayla Reid

With All the Seas of the World, award-winning short-story writer Gayla Reid makes a confident and compelling, affecting and strong-minded entry into long fiction. And she does it like a champion hurdler, breezing over a ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Prairie Summer

By Nancy Hundal, Brian Deines, illus.

Vancouver writer and teacher-librarian Nancy Hundal’s latest poetic picture book lovingly follows two city boys on a summer visit with their prairie cousins. A sensuous text captures the sounds, smells, and even mosquito bites of ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pippin Takes a Bath

By K. V. Johansen, Bernice Lum, illus.

Pippin is a big, goofy yellow dog with a curly black tail who doesn’t like baths. Her attempts to escape from the tub, galloping off into the forest, mean that her loving owner, Mabel, in ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Bye-Bye Pie

By Sharon Jennings, Ruth Ohi, illus.

When Grandma announces she is going to Greenland for a year-long visit, Joey’s family plans a surprise going-away party for her. Joey and his little brother, Alfie, make presents, and Joey helps Mom bake Grandma’s ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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