Mount Appetite

Bill Gaston’s Mount Appetite is an unsettling collection of 12 short stories that plunges readers into a morass of unfulfilled desires, broken hearts, and lives overwhelmed to the point of destruction by chemical and emotional ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations

By Gayla Reid

The cover of Gayla Reid’s Closer Apart shows a tree viewed from somewhere near the base. From this perspective, it’s impossible not to recognize one’s own relative height and to marvel at the branches – ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Sack of Teeth

By Grant Buday

With his latest novel, A Sack of Teeth, critically praised Vancouver writer Grant Buday chronicles a single day in the life of a Vancouver family. It’s September 1965, and six-year-old Jack Klein is about to ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chewing on Tinfoil

By Joe Ollmann

Hamilton, Ontario’s Joe Ollmann has been self-publishing his comic WAG for 11 years now, and his editorial strip “Job’s Palace” had an impressive run in The Hamilton Spectator, crossing boundaries between the conventional gag comic ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

When the Giant Stirred: Legend of a Volcanic Island

By Celia Godkin

When the Giant Stirred by Celia Godkin makes a sincere attempt to both inform and engage young readers. Godkin, a University of Toronto professor and teacher of scientific illustration, has produced other picture books that ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

No, No, Jack!

By Ron Hirsch, Pierre Pratt, illus.

A dog named Jack loves to hide everyday objects in the closet. Then he waits outside the closet until the family members discover the missing object. Author Ron Hirsch combines short, punchy sentences, like “This ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Camping

By Nancy Hundal, Brian Deines, illus.

The family members in this latest collaboration between Nancy Hundal and Brian Deines hold different ideas about the perfect summer vacation, but all are hoping for some kind of urban adventure. So when the parents ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Kite

By Luis Garay

Francisco is a poor Nicaraguan boy whose mother is expecting a baby. Since the recent death of his father, Francisco must help support his family by selling newspapers (which he cannot read) in the market ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Haida Quest

By Mary Razzell

At age 16, Lucy Tyla is abandoned by her irresponsible mother, who chooses a new boyfriend over her daughter. Left on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast with the grandmother she has never met but immediately loves, Lucy ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Edge

By Diane Tullson

Marlie and Keely used to be friends, in the first part of Grade 8. But then Keely started hanging out with Loren (popular but mean) and dropped Marlie. Then Keely confided in Marlie that she ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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