At first glance, the shape of this story is familiar. A blind old minstrel arrives at the royal court of the Phantom Queen and spins an epic tale of tragedy and power misused. It’s set ... Read More »
January 19, 2004
For those who love both pets and crafts, these new offerings from Kids Can Press are sure to be hits. Ontario author/illustrator Linda Hendry’s Dog Crafts is filled with eyecatching theme projects kids will want ... Read More »
January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Hummingbirds are apparently the most popular birds in North America, and reading these two appealing books about them makes it easy to understand why. Any account of hummingbirds deals in amazing statistics: their wings beat ... Read More »
January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Hummingbirds are apparently the most popular birds in North America, and reading these two appealing books about them makes it easy to understand why. Any account of hummingbirds deals in amazing statistics: their wings beat ... Read More »
January 19, 2004
Adults have trouble understanding how people could do the things we know were done during the Holocaust. How then can we explain what went on 60 years ago to children? Fortunately, there are books like ... Read More »
January 19, 2004
For his second collection of poetry, Toronto poet and editor Paul Vermeersch writes, in a linear series of narrative poems, the life story of a fat kid’s battle with anorexia. The kid of the title ... Read More »
January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Don’t let the title fool you: this debut collection by Toronto poet Alice Burdick is anything but simple. The book is quartered into segments that seem to lend a menu-like efficiency to its consumption. The ... Read More »
January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Anyone who has ever traveled, especially into a country with a vastly different culture, knows that an exploration of their native poetry is essential. The next best approach is to read a book like Douglas ... Read More »
January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
The age-old conflict between art and commerce (otherwise known as “Is it really selling my soul if I get to eat regularly?”) is given a contemporary and Canadian voice in Hoyden, the debut novel from ... Read More »
January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The increasing power of corporations and advertisers in contemporary society has gotten a lot of press in recent years and has become fodder for fiction, especially science fiction. In this, his third novel, Toronto writer ... Read More »
January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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