January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
What do you do when your grandma from Africa comes to visit and then won’t get out of bed because it’s too cold? The children in this picture book by storyteller Adwoa Badoe (The Pot ... Read More »
Danny, the young hockey hero of The Moccasin Goalie and The Final Game, is back on the ice in William Roy Brownridge’s latest picture book. Although he’s unable to wear skates because he has a ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Devoted Canadian readers of hockey lore will immediately begin making comparisons between this book and another similar one for young readers, Roch Carrier’s classic, The Hockey Sweater. And the comparison is a fitting one.First-time children’s ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
That’s Hockey is a playful trip back to a time when hockey was played outside. Seasoned author David Bouchard cleverly crafts the story in first person and conceals whether the main character is a girl ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Like the avant-garde musician and writer John Cage, Toronto poet and small-press publisher Jay Millar finds mushrooms fascinating (hence his title, Mycological Studies). Mushrooms offer Millar a tempting metaphor for language and the writing process. ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
The cover of Ending with Music pays tribute to the under-appreciated American poet John Berryman, and the poems contained here reflect some of Berryman’s syntactical inventiveness as well as revealing author Maurice Mierau’s preoccupation with ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
Barbara Hodgson’s latest quirky history book uses numerous first-person accounts, diary entries, and amusing bits of historical trivia to describe what it was like to be female and “on the road” in the days when ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
Early in This Heated Place, an Arab acquaintance tells author Deborah Campbell – at the time a Canadian student at Tel Aviv University during the Gulf War – “What you see depends on where you ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
Some call it a craft, some folk art. Others, like professor William C. Reeve, prefer to label it utilitarian art. However it’s viewed, the handcrafting of wooden duck decoys has been a quintessentially North American ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Back in the early days of the Cold War, it looked as though the Soviet Union was going to completely dominate the Space Race – a state of affairs that American leaders knew would be ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History