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Until recently, Emily Leeson was working as a marketing and publicity assistant for McClelland & Stewart and Random House of Canada, but when her husband was offered a transfer to her home province of Nova ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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Montrealer Matthew Forsythe’s surreal cartoons about a young girl battling her way through a land of squids and giants and walking cameras began as doodles he drew while teaching kids English in Korea. But it ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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Vancouver’s Graham McNamee, whose previous novel, Acceleration, won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery, writes the kind of book that puts adults on the edge of their seats every bit as much as ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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Since he started writing kids’ books, Toronto’s Cary Fagan (who is also a respected adult novelist), has garnered a reputation for lively and entertaining work in several genres, from picture books to novels. This year, ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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It’s not as though Anne Shirley has ever been far from the spotlight, but this, the centenary year of the publication of Anne of Green Gables, was definitely a banner year for the redhead from ... Read More »

December 12, 2008

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It’s getting harder and harder to stand out in the realm of graphic novels, but cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki do so easily with this illustrated diary of an unhappy high school student in early ... Read More »

December 12, 2008 | Filed under: Book news