Not all rebels sport tattoos. Sultana, age 16, rebels by wearing the Muslim hijab – a cloth that covers her face and body – so people will focus on her intelligence and spirit rather than ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
A teenage girl in a psychiatric hospital: there could be few scenarios more emotionally fraught, and more at risk of creating a tidal wave of melodrama that might overwhelm the characters and their story. In ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Pete Marlowe’s new picture book tells the fanciful tale of what happens when the power goes out one night at a little girl’s home. Soon after her parents tuck her into bed for the night, ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Didi is a hyperkinetic toddler with a blonde ponytail, round tummy, and an infectious enthusiasm for her Sunday morning walks with her Dad (no Mom in evidence) on Brooklyn’s riverside Promenade. Marie-Louise Gay’s breezy illustrations ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Here is a keen observer, charting day-to-day experience in poems of loss and quiet celebration. A series of elegies, The Strength of Materials reflects Rhea Tregebov’s understanding of the human passage through time. Her resilient ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
The philosophy behind the by-now-familiar Gen X posture is that the only way to protect yourself from cliché and pretension is to refer frequently to the silliest pop-culture material you can get your mittens on. ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
As the title suggests, Vancouver writer Shani Mootoo’s first collection of poetry catalogues the many “in-betweens” formed by a world of either/or choices and definitions. As in her award-winning novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, Mootoo ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
If it’s true that losers’ tales make for the best sports stories, Green Grit, Graham Kelly’s history of the floundering fortunes of the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, ought to have provided readers with a very dramatic ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
It is somewhat curious that Canada, a country very much aware of its natural heritage and with an abundance of nature writing (both in periodicals and books), lacks significant, contemporary anthologies of nature writing. Despite ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction
As we push further into the 21st century, Canada’s Second World War veterans are sliding ever more quickly into extinction. Once they are gone, how will they be remembered? Arthur Bishop’s new book goes a ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: History
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