Kids’ Books

And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle

As Canadians, we tend to overlook our own history of modern art, eclipsed as it was by the advances toward Modernism in Europe and America early in the 20th century. The 1913 New York Armory ... Read More »

December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Literary Celebrity in Canada

By Lorraine York

In this slim book, Lorraine York, a professor of English at McMaster University, examines the condition of literary celebrity in Canada. She begins by looking at early celebrity authors in this country – Pauline Johnson, ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Shut Up He Explained

By John Metcalf

John Metcalf is tired of being called a literary crank. Right near the beginning of this fatally unbalanced collection of literary memoir, travel memoir, criticism, and belles-lettres sweepings, the author, literary critic, and former Porcupine’s ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Rick Mercer Report: The Book

By Rick Mercer

Comedian Rick Mercer has won more than 30 Gemini awards and received numerous government honours for lampooning Canadian politics and its uninspiring players. Rick Mercer Report: The Book collects dozens of his hugely popular “rants,” ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill

By Pino Posteraro

Chef Pino Posteraro hails originally from Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot. He has cooked in Toronto, Singapore, and throughout Italy. In 1999, he opened his Vancouver restaurant, Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill, recognized since then as ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

By Tim Bowling

Readers picking up this book should be forewarned by its title: this is nostalgia with an edge. Novelist and award-winning poet Tim Bowling grew up in the 1960s in Ladner, on the banks of the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Dangerous Crossings!

By Antonia Banyard

Antonia Banyard’s Dangerous Crossings!, the final installment in Annick Press’s True Stories from the Edge series, is about 10 land, air, and sea voyages that will likely leave readers young and old shaking their heads ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Yum! Yum!! Delicious Nursery Rhymes

By Joanne Fitzgerald

Joanne Fitzgerald illustrated the GG-winning Doctor Kiss Says Yes, and The Little Rooster and the Diamond Button, winner of a Mr. Christie’s Book Award. In Yum! Yum!!, she creates a tasty marriage of ingeniously presented ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mechanimals

By Chris Tougas

$&Baby chicks that help with heavy lifting and steel-wool-coated sheep that can buff metal are just two of the remarkable inventions of the enterprising and mechanically minded farmer in Chris Tougas’s funny new picture book. $& ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

Clancy with the Puck

By Chris Mizzoni

As anyone who has followed the sport knows, hockey demands of its players a certain humility. Celebrating an easy goal too ostentatiously is a no-no, as is taking too much credit for your team’s success. ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Picture Books

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And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle

Literary Celebrity in Canada

Shut Up He Explained

Rick Mercer Report: The Book

Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill

The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

Dangerous Crossings!

Yum! Yum!! Delicious Nursery Rhymes

Mechanimals

Clancy with the Puck

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