Children and YA Non-fiction

One Bloody Thing After Another

Following 2009’s Overqualified, Joey Comeau returns with another slim, quirky novel. The earlier volume contained a series of faux-confessional job application letters. Taking up where that book left off, One Bloody Thing After Another opens ... Read More »

June 9, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation

By John Boyko

At first glance, there is something almost reassuringly Canadian about the fact that R.B. Bennett, who was prime minister during the worst years of the Great Depression, between 1930 and 1935, has mostly avoided the ... Read More »

May 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Truth About Delilah Blue

By Tish Cohen

In a previous life, Lila Mack had been Delilah Blue Lovett, living out an idyllic childhood in Toronto with her unconventional mother, Elisabeth. Everything changed, however, when at age eight, her father, Victor, whisked her ... Read More »

May 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Reader on Reading

By Alberto Manguel

In 1998, Alberto Manguel released Into the Looking Glass Wood, a collection of essays that, in its indirect way, pays obeisance to the enduring genius of Lewis Carroll. His new collection, A Reader on Reading, ... Read More »

May 10, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

After All, You’re Callie Boone

By Winnie Mack

For tween girls who recently watched Canada’s female athletes clean up in Vancouver, swimming fanatic Callie Boone arrives right on time. Callie is 11, and we meet her during her “worst summer ever,” one filled ... Read More »

May 3, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Secret Life of Glenn Gould: A Genius in Love

By Michael Clarkson

The title of this addition to the lengthening shelf of books about Glenn Gould carries a slight suggestion of tabloid journalism. The suggestion is not altogether misplaced, given this volume’s subject matter. Many of Gould’s ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature

By Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller, eds.

A single-volume history of Canadian literature “from the beginnings” – which here means the first European contact with Native peoples – presents a formidable challenge. The “two women scholars” (their self-description) who have edited this ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

The STU Reader: Poetry, Prose and Fiction by St. Thomas University Writers

By Douglas Vipond and Russell A. Hunt, eds.

St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, offers a liberal arts education, which, given our current obsession with job training, is increasingly rare for post-secondary institutions. The year 2010 marks St. Thomas’s centenary, and this ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Curiosity

By Joan Thomas

The best historical novels effortlessly transport their readers back into the past, while less successful attempts bury the reader in musty research and leave the characters to gather dust. Curiosity, the sophomore effort from Winnipeg-based ... Read More »

April 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Doctrine of Affections

By Paul Headrick

In music, the “doctrine of the affections” is the theory that a composer can elicit involuntary emotions in listeners by utilizing certain techniques, such as large or small intervals between notes (meant to invoke joy ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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