The Speaking Cure

Shot through with gallows humour and a brand of wartime slapstick, David Homel’s The Speaking Cure communicates a subtle and powerful anti-censorship message while blurring already shifty lines between right and wrong, victim and oppressor. ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Stone’s Throw: The Enduring Nature of Myth

By Ross Laird

Of the four elements, earth is the most silent. And yet writing and painting found on the Earth’s stones are also our only form of communication with lost ancestors. Like this, its central symbol, Ross ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Revenge of the Cootie Girls

By Sparkle Hayter

In 1995, Sparkle Hayter won the Arthur Ellis Award for her inaugural Robin Hudson mystery, What’s A Girl Gotta Do? The third book in the series, Revenge of the Cootie Girls, is more guide to ... Read More »

November 16, 2003

The Nose from Jupiter

By Richard Scrimger

Suppose we took all the ingredients of the traditional young adult novel – divorce, bullies, frustrated romance, angst, personal introspection – and handed them to a little-known writer. Suppose the writer was a stay-at-home dad ... Read More »

November 14, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Greatest Goal

By Mike Leonetti, Sean Thompson, illus.

Any Canadian grown-up can tell you all you need to know about how, back in 1972, Paul Henderson scored the dramatic goal that lifted Team Canada to a win over the Soviet Union in the ... Read More »

November 12, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

You Asked for It!: Strange but True Answers to 99 Wacky Questions

By Marg Meikle, Tina Holdcroft, illus.

Just as its title promises, the 99 questions contained herein are pretty wacky – for example, to name but three: Do dogs and cats have belly buttons?; Why do people wear underwear?; and Does a ... Read More »

November 12, 2003 | Filed under: Events

Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

By Anne McPherson

Ways of the Wilderness, the new book from Ontario writer and art curator Anne McPherson, is rooted in McPherson’s academic work some 40 years ago. Inspired by H.A. Williams’ The True Wilderness, McPherson realized that ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Blades, Boards & Scooters

By Keltie Thomas, Steve Attoe and Allan Moon, illus.

Blades, Boards & Scooters, the latest from Keltie Thomas (How Hockey Works), captures every imaginable aspect of the mania for these popular activities. Beginning with safety tips and a look at the sports’ histories, Thomas ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Tiger Rescue

By Dan Bortolotti

Firefly launches a great new series with one of the highest-profile animals on the endangered list: the tiger, king of the cats. Flagged as on the way out in the 1970s, the tiger made a ... Read More »

November 11, 2003

★ Canadian Dinosaurs

By Elin Kelsey

Another dinosaur book? Yes, and one that meets the challenge of standing out from the stock rehashes of information every 10-year-old already knows. Award-winning author and scientist Elin Kelsey’s new book is part of the ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

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