The Word for Home

This beautifully written novel from historical fiction writer Joan Clark will be a real pleaser for the kids who love Jean Little’s works. The Word for Home is a tribute to life in 1926 Newfoundland ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World’s People

By David J. Smith, Shelagh Armstrong, illus.

While perhaps not the most boring book ever created for young readers, If the World Were a Village is certainly a contender. A worthy attempt to inculcate global awareness in children, David J. Smith’s information ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Camp X

By Eric Walters

Eric Walters has dedicated his latest novel to the memory of Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian who headed British security during the Second World War and established a spy camp in Whitby, Ontario, in 1941. ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

My Canary Yellow Star

By Eva Wiseman

Marta Weisz, daughter of a well-respected Jewish doctor, sees her world turn upside down in March 1944, when Nazi soldiers march into Budapest. Her father is sent to a work camp, her mother can find ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

First Folks and Vile Voyageurs

By Claire Mackay, Bill Dickson, illus.

If you think Canadian history can’t be fun, think again. Here comes Claire Mackay’s rollicking, irreverent version of Canada’s early centuries, from prehistory to the exploits of Samuel de Champlain (“Sam the Tripper”) and Etienne ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Capturing Joy: The Story of Maud Lewis

By Jo Ellen Bogart, Mark Lang, illus.

The story of Maud Lewis, the folk artist from Nova Scotia, has immediate appeal, just like her art. Handicapped by birth defects that gave her hunched shoulders, and by severe arthritis in her hands, the ... Read More »

January 27, 2004

Recreating Eden: A Natural History of Botanical Gardens

By Mary Soderstrom

Do plants have sex? Did the New World, full of plants never seen by the Christian-European eye, escape the Flood? Such provocative questions sprung from the soil of early botanical gardens in Europe and have ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Art of Adultery

By Consuelo Jackman

The provocative title of this debut collection belies the measured calmness of the 22 poems contained within. The Art of Adultery attempts to articulate the passion and pain of impossible relationships through language that, considering ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Heave

By Christy Ann Conlin

There have been many successful novels that never venture far beyond the confines of a single character’s mind. But if an author is going to set such narrow parameters, then there had better be something ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Journeymind

By Brad Thomas Batten

A car skids on black ice on Avenue Road in Toronto. As the unnamed narrator lies badly injured by the roadside, the souls of his fellow victims, lover Elle and his father, slip “like eels, ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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