Right from page three, when a grizzly interrupts Becky’s hissy fit in a mountain meadow, Sky Horse hasn’t a dull moment. Becky is outraged at being stuck in the wilderness of Mustang Mountain Ranch with ... Read More »
January 26, 2004
Andrea Spalding’s prologue to the first book of her fantasy quartet set in the White Horse Hills of Oxfordshire crackles: “In the Place Beyond Morning, terrible trouble arose.” We’re listening in as the great white ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
When I grow up, I’m going to be a Mountie.” So opens Anne Laurel Carter’s new picture book, a first-person narrative of one boy’s ability to turn the task of finding his wayward little brother ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
A little mouse goes outside to play one morning, and in the course of the day he has fun with a bouncy dog, a wiggly pig, a timid sheep, a friendly cow, a happy cat, ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In this sequel to Loon Lake Fishing Derby, Kathleen Cook Waldron takes young readers on another madcap adventure with the same four animal friends: a squirrel, salamander, mouse, and turtle. On a hot summer day, ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In the middle of a Canadian winter, it’s quite a pleasure to look at a picture book about a sunny summer day on the beach. Jane Barclay tells her story in the voice of a ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Anyone who has lived in downtown Toronto in the past 10 years has probably been exposed to the art of Fiona Smyth. A respected and sometimes controversial Toronto artist, Smyth has been referred to as ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
The Shape of a Girl and Jewel are both one-act, one-character plays that hold a microscope to stories from the Canadian news. A teenage girl beaten to death by her peers and the story of ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Imagists like Ezra Pound used to throw around the phrase “ut pictura poesis,” which means “as is painting so is poetry.” The saying suggested that a poem draws out the same sensations as a painting, ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Joan Crate published her first poetry book a dozen years ago, and the deftness of this second appearance is enough to recommend a similar gestation period to today’s crop of grant-starved, print-hungry poets. Without investing ... Read More »
January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
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