Shoulder the Sky

It’s not normal to be so normal, especially if your mother has just died: that’s what adults keep telling 16-year-old Martin Emerson. Everyone else in Martin’s household is struggling under a blanket of grief. His ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

An Earthly Knight

By Janet McNaughton

“If my love were an earthly night,/As he’s an elfin grey,/I wad na gie my ain true-love/for nae lord that ye hae.” It’s that pesky ain true-love problem again, source of every romance novel ever ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

Ned Mouse Breaks Away

By Tim Wynne-Jones, Dusan Petricic, illus.

Ned Mouse, the hero of this beginner reader chapter book, is a political prisoner. Having written a protest message in a pile of cooked spinach (“The government is unfair to mice,” traced with one finger), ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

The Kids Book of World Religions

By Jennifer Glossop, John Mantha, illus.

I had reservations about the wisdom of condensing 15 religions, with all their complexities, into 62 pages. But The Kids Book of World Religions, a clearly written and organized primer for young readers, goes a ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

The Martial Arts Book

By Laura Scandiffio, Nicolas Debon, illus.

Children keen to try out martial arts will quickly learn that there’s more to karate than the stunts seen in action movies. The Martial Arts Book highlights the historical beginnings of martial arts, emphasizing the ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

Ode to Newfoundland

By Geoff Butler, illus., lyrics by Sir Cavendish Boyle

An ideal gift for any Newfoundlander, tourist, or exile, this cheerfully illustrated book celebrates the land, seascapes, people, and traditions of Canada’s easternmost province. Its primary text, displayed in a banner held by two puffins ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!

By Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost

The intriguing question “What happened after the fugitive slaves reached Canada?” is ably answered by three writers who are specialists in Underground Railroad history. Their research, which was originally undertaken for an exhibit at the ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

Heroines

By Lincoln Clarkes

Lincoln Clarkes is a Canadian fashion photographer who has made his mark both at home and in Paris and London. In 1996 he began a series of photographs whose subjects could not be less glamorous ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

By Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, eds.

The first Dropped Threads anthology, the brainchild of Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, was a Canadian publishing phenomenon. Book clubs across the country seized on the collection of true stories about what women aren’t told ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Pouring Small Fire

By Susan Manchester

With concrete imagery painted over punchy verse, Pouring Small Fire resembles a collection of nature photographs capturing memorable scenes. Poet and English teacher Susan Manchester writes how “the mist still paused” and “rude oaks laugh ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

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Quill and Quire

Shoulder the Sky

An Earthly Knight

Ned Mouse Breaks Away

The Kids Book of World Religions

The Martial Arts Book

Ode to Newfoundland

The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!

Heroines

★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

Pouring Small Fire

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