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The Return of the Grudstone Ghosts

By Arthur Slade

Arthur Slade’s new novel is the first in his Canadian Chills Series, a line of mysteries for middle readers set in Canadian locales. As in the author’s Northern Frights novels (beginning with Draugr in 1998), ... Read More »

January 8, 2004

Caillou: New Shoes

By Marion Johnson, Eric Sevigny, illus.

Those who are wary of preschool books with a TV connection will be pleasantly surprised by Caillou. Published in Quebec, the Caillou books feature a bald little boy. With input from child psychologists and produced ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Caillou: Hurry Up!

By Joceline Sanschagrin, Claude Lapierre, illus.

Those who are wary of preschool books with a TV connection will be pleasantly surprised by Caillou. Published in Quebec, the Caillou books feature a bald little boy. With input from child psychologists and produced ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Princess Backwards

By Jane Gray, Liz Milkau, illus.

Princess Fred (yes, Fred; she’s the daughter of King Nancy and Queen David) lives in a comical medieval land where backwards is normal. People greet each other with “You see to nice!”; signs hang upside-down; ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Circus Play

By Anne Laurel Carter, Joanne Fitzgerald, illus.

Beyond simply telling a good story, the best children’s literature bases itself on a single, unifying theme. The brevity of the work and the age of the audience demand it. The theme need not necessarily ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Anancy and the Haunted House

By Richardo Keens-Douglas, Stéphane Jorisch, illus.

Trickster extraordinaire Anancy the Spider can’t help bragging that his adventures are bigger and better than everyone else’s. When his little spider friends throw him a big beach party in the shadow of a haunted ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Rumor

By Jan Thornhill

Long ago in India, a young worrywart hare settles down for a nap, only to be startled by a falling mango. It sounds like an explosion, and she panics, shouting, “The world is breaking up!” ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Tracking Doctor Lonecloud: From Showman to Legend Keeper

By Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Don’t be fooled by appearances. Tracking Doctor Lonecloud is a short book, but it contains more information than most books twice its size, and much of the content isn’t documented anywhere else. The subject, Jerry ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada

By Anne Compton et al., eds.

In his poem “The Squall,” P.E.I. poet Milton Acorn muses on the odd fact that rowers must face backwards, “taking direction from where they’d been,/With only quick-snatched glances at where they’re going.” It is fitting ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Thirteen Hands and Other Plays

By Carol Shields

Carol Shields claims to have been “an avid theatre-goer in the sixties and seventies,” when she was “greatly attracted to the experimental theatre of the time.” Her own plays, collected here for the first time, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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