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
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According to criminal justice consultant and youth gang expert Michael Chettleburgh, every Canadian city has, or will soon have, a…Read More »
July 27, 2007 at 12:04pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Children’s TV shows do not always translate well to print. Happily, the four books published under the Daniel Cook rubric…Read More »
January 8, 2007 at 05:00pm | Filed under: Picture Books
Though the last 25 years have seen enough social, economic, technological, and even ecological change to keep a small army…Read More »
October 3, 2006 at 05:54pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Hippies flourished from about 1966 to 1968. After that, predators began to close in on the happy campers. Bigger, badder…Read More »
June 1, 2006 at 05:38pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Frank Sinatra sang about waking up in the city that never sleeps. For a two-month period in 2001, Quebec animator…Read More »
August 22, 2005 at 05:10pm | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Almost 100 years ago, Chief Joe Capilano told this story to Pauline Johnson, the daughter of a Mohawk chief and…Read More »
March 21, 2005 at 10:55am | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
Ojibwe-Algonquin artist Benjamin Chee Chee committed suicide in 1977, just as he was about to achieve international stardom. Author Alvin…Read More »
March 24, 2004 at 04:38pm | Filed under: Native Peoples
I have always wanted to open a review with a quote from the prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; now I…Read More »
March 24, 2004 at 04:12pm | Filed under: Reference
Often sequels end up being paler versions of the original. Happily, Alison Baird’s latest, the prequel to The Hidden World,…Read More »
March 19, 2004 at 11:48am | Filed under:
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