February 18, 2004 at 01:05pm | Filed under: Picture Books
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These two new picture books deal with reading in radically different ways. In The Girl Who Hated Books, Meena lives…Read More »
Andrea resents the idea of being a junior bridesmaid at her cousin’s wedding. Defiantly dressed in overalls at the rehearsal…Read More »
February 17, 2004 at 01:42pm | Filed under:
There is a tendency for poets to fall under the spell of words. It’s hardly surprising – the allure of…Read More »
February 17, 2004 at 01:14pm | Filed under: Poetry
As Erna Paris’s life was “forever altered” by a chance visit to a Nazi death camp, the reader too is…Read More »
February 16, 2004 at 02:45pm | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
It’s not often that a short story collection makes you want to reread William Blake, but Michael Bryson’s Only a…Read More »
February 16, 2004 at 02:24pm | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Having grown up in the rural, largely agricultural end of southwestern British Columbia, I had, by a very young age,…Read More »
February 6, 2004 at 10:27am | Filed under: Reference
In his playful second book for children, poet Gary Barwin riffs on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk.…Read More »
February 5, 2004 at 01:32pm | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
The day Harley got his learner’s permit, he convinced his dad to let him drive. It’s a day Harley will…Read More »
February 3, 2004 at 03:26pm | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Recently, American essayist Wendy Steiner characterized contemporary female fiction as being “rich in imagery and emotion, consumed by the desire…Read More »
February 2, 2004 at 03:05pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Samuel Tyne is one of the oddest protagonists you will find in a Canadian novel of this or any other…Read More »
January 14, 2004 at 04:44pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels