Children and YA Non-fiction

Tempting Faith Dinapoli

The opening chapters of Tempting Faith DiNapoli brim with bodily fluids – not surprising, considering that four of the main characters, Matty, Faith, Hope, and Charlie, are all under the age of four. Those fluids ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Private View

By Jean McNeil

Alex, a disillusioned former artist, and Conrad, a manic mid-career artist, are flatmates and sometime lovers in London’s northeast end in transplanted Canadian novelist Jean McNeil’s Private View. It is a skillfully evoked, somewhat sordid ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

On Every Stone

By Rachel Vigier

In her first collection of poetry, On Every Stone, Rachel Vigier explores the meaning of disappearance as she reflects on the life and loss of her sister, Micheline, who disappeared October 9, 1988. But the ... Read More »

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

The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

By Michael Ondaatje

Thought about film editing lately? As the guy who leaves the cuttings on the cutting room floor, Walter Murch has given the final shape to a host of seminal American movies – including The Conversation, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Mycological Studies

By Jay Millar

Like the avant-garde musician and writer John Cage, Toronto poet and small-press publisher Jay Millar finds mushrooms fascinating (hence his title, Mycological Studies). Mushrooms offer Millar a tempting metaphor for language and the writing process. ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Ending with Music

By Maurice Mierau

The cover of Ending with Music pays tribute to the under-appreciated American poet John Berryman, and the poems contained here reflect some of Berryman’s syntactical inventiveness as well as revealing author Maurice Mierau’s preoccupation with ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travellers

By Barbara Hodgson

Barbara Hodgson’s latest quirky history book uses numerous first-person accounts, diary entries, and amusing bits of historical trivia to describe what it was like to be female and “on the road” in the days when ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land

By Deborah Campbell

Early in This Heated Place, an Arab acquaintance tells author Deborah Campbell – at the time a Canadian student at Tel Aviv University during the Gulf War – “What you see depends on where you ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

By Stephanie Nolen

Back in the early days of the Cold War, it looked as though the Soviet Union was going to completely dominate the Space Race – a state of affairs that American leaders knew would be ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Body Talk: The Straight Facts on Fitness, Nutrition and Feeling Great About Yourself

By Ann and Julie Douglas, Claudia Davila, illus.

Ann Douglas, a well-known author on issues of childhood and parenting, has teamed up with her 14-year-old daughter to write this book on body image issues for preteens. Topics covered include a historical look at ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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