Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Saskatchewan stories

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In the closing months of Saskatchewan’s centennial year, Regina’s Coteau Books has released a new children’s series focusing on different aspects of the province’s heritage. And thanks to a $30,000 grant from the newly created ... Read More »

October 18, 2005

Snapshot: Michael Katz

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The publisher and creative force behind Tradewind Books, a children’s publisher on Vancouver’s trendy Granville Island, is Michael Katz. “I jumped into publishing direct from teaching,” he says. Katz taught high school English in London, ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

Proper usage, eh?

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If it were a detective story it might have been called “The Mystery of the Introductory Adverbial Phrase.” The author needed some serious sleuthing. What, he wanted to know, was the story with “as well”? ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

A whole new Stew

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French-speaking children in Canada are about to get their first taste of “Alligator Pie” – made from a slightly different recipe.Paul Savoie, who was charged with translating Dennis Lee’s classic 1974 poem for the firststew/> ... Read More »

October 14, 2005

BookThug in harmony

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I’m standing in a room at the back of a modest house in Toronto’s Bloor West Village. Not much larger than a bus shelter, it is the sort of room originally meant for storing rubber ... Read More »

October 14, 2005