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The canon according to Microsoft

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Toronto poet Darren Wershler-Henry performed the following poem at Toronto's The Scream in High Park in July. "Nightmare Anthology: The Corrected Bill Bissett" is from Wershler-Henry's first collection of poetry, NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs, ... Read More »

November 7, 2003

Speaking one’s mind

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"Miss Swan, your perfectionism is getting in the way of your story-telling,” Hugh MacLennan thundered at me after one of his McGill University creative writing classes. “The writer’s first task is to finish and you ... Read More »

November 7, 2003

A peppy report card

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Several Canadian children’s publishers have reason to be happy with the results of the first Publisher’s Report Card, compiled by the Writer’s Union of Canada. Of the 12 publishers featured, Kids Can, Scholastic, and Groundwood ... Read More »

November 7, 2003

Natural teaching

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I recently accompanied my daughter’s Grade 4 class on their end-of-school trip. Instead of going bowling or to McDonald’s, her teacher, armed with a large box of garbage bags, organized an outing to a local ... Read More »

November 7, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Teaching without texts

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When I began teaching Grade 5 in Nova Scotia in 1974 I unearthed a quaint little textbook in the back of my cupboard: the revised edition of Davis and Edwards’ Using Our Language Things haven’t ... Read More »

November 7, 2003

Letters

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Real story is in the detailsTo the editor:Many thanks for drawing attention to the CCSP’s two-volume study, The Reading and Purchasing Public: The Market for Trade Books in English Canada, 1991 (“The Numbers Game,” June ... Read More »

November 7, 2003

Changes

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PEOPLE BANTAM/DOUBLEDAY: Adrienne Ball joins the company as publicity assistant. BOOK AND PERIODICAL COUNCIL: Richard Lee, a former president of Ginn Publishing, has been elected chair of the council. Jenny Lorentowicz, director of technical services ... Read More »

November 7, 2003

Changes

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PEOPLE BANTAM/DOUBLEDAY: Adrienne Ball joins the company as publicity assistant. BOOK AND PERIODICAL COUNCIL: Richard Lee, a former president of Ginn Publishing, has been elected chair of the council. Jenny Lorentowicz, director of technical services ... Read More »

November 7, 2003

Customer Loyalty 101

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Can smaller independents survive and thrive in the face of superstore competition? Kare Anderson, a bookstore consultant who spoke at a Thursday morning session of the CBA, believes so, and offered several suggestions on how ... Read More »

November 7, 2003