February 15, 2012 at 02:47pm | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
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A cross between a science experiment and history project, The World in Your Lunch Box humorously and informatively dissects a…Read More »
Adam Gopnik’s latest collection of essays examines the “question of food.” Best known as a writer for The New Yorker…Read More »
February 7, 2012 at 02:12pm | Filed under: Food & Drink
Matthew Firth excels at writing arresting opening sentences. “Action,” the first story in the Ottawa writer’s fourth collection, begins with…Read More »
January 9, 2012 at 04:42pm | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Art squares off against commerce in Shari Lapeña’s second novel, a funny yet earnest tale of a struggling poet’s attempts…Read More »
September 26, 2011 at 01:50pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
There is nothing harder to perceive than our own preconceptions, and perhaps no better remedy for this blindness than walking…Read More »
September 7, 2011 at 04:37pm | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Toronto writer Elyse Friedman has a history of writing quirky stories. In her 1999 novel Then Again, she wrote about…Read More »
December 20, 2007 at 12:08pm | Filed under: Fiction: Short
After publishing more than 40 books over a writing career that spans more than four decades, Margaret Atwood must be…Read More »
October 2, 2007 at 02:41pm | Filed under: Poetry
He was too grumpy to eat. He was too grumpy to play. In fact, he was too grumpy to fly.…Read More »
March 5, 2007 at 02:15pm | Filed under: Picture Books
Nostalgia has a bad reputation in this uber-ironic era of ours. And no wonder: some Internet sleuthing quickly shows that…Read More »
October 14, 2005 at 02:56pm | Filed under: Picture Books
"Your call is important to us.” We’ve all this line before, but if my call were truly important to you,…Read More »
May 2, 2005 at 04:35pm | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture