Children and YA Non-fiction

The Jasmine Man

Writers like Lola Lemire Tostevin resist the ordinary and predictable in sentences and plots. While she hasn’t sold a zillion books, Tostevin has enjoyed a fine reputation as a thinking, feeling, inventive crafter of fiction ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Louder than the Sea

By Wayne Bartlett

In his other incarnation, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Wayne Bartlett’s most popular song chronicles the closure of the Newfoundland fishery. In Louder than the Sea, his first novel, he tackles similarly political subjects: the necessity of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Sputnik Diner

By Rick Maddocks

Rick Maddocks’ impressive talent isn’t necessarily in telling stories – the five interconnected tales of Sputnik Diner are carefully crafted, but are often preoccupied with plodding exposition. Like Alice Munro, whose works share the common ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Dagmar’s Daughter

By Kim Echlin

In many ways, Kim Echlin’s second novel continues the themes of her first: Elephant Winter set the progress of a mother’s death against the incongruous backdrop of elephants in an Ontario winter. In that book ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Kingdom of Monkeys

By Adam Lewis Schroeder

In the film Apocalypse Now – which functions as a backdrop to one of the stories in this collection – the jungle starts to pick off the increasingly delirious Yanks as they journey upriver, turning ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Life Without Mooch

By Gilles Gauthier, Pierre-André Derome, illus.

Life Without Mooch is one of four new Formac books, each about characters familiar to readers of the series called First Novels: Maddie (Maddie Wants New Clothes), Marilou (Marilou’s Long Nose), Fred (Fred’s Midnight Prowler), ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

A Kind of Fiction

By P.K. Page; P.K. Page

In “Unless the Eye Catch Fire,” the last and best story of P.K. Page’s A Kind of Fiction, an avid gardener and sometime journal writer is possessed by a strangely calm end-of-world vision that enables ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Flying Geese

By Barbara Haworth-Attard

How tidy is history? It’s a question that every writer of historical fiction must contemplate, especially those who write for the young, for whom the impulse to narrative neatness is strong. The olden-days books that ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

If I Just Had Two Wings

By Virginia Frances Schwartz

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ First on the Moon

By Barbara Hehner, Greg Ruhl, illus.

When the editors of the I Was There series asked Barbara Hehner to author First on the Moon, they certainly chose the right person. Hehner’s writing makes us feel as if we really were there ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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Quill and Quire

The Jasmine Man

Louder than the Sea

Sputnik Diner

Dagmar’s Daughter

Kingdom of Monkeys

Life Without Mooch

A Kind of Fiction

Flying Geese

If I Just Had Two Wings

★ First on the Moon

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