Waging Heavy Peace

That a musical shape-shifter like Neil Young would take an unorthodox approach to his memoirs is to be expected. Indeed, this charming, poignant volume is much like Young’s oeuvre: sustained periods of pure delight punctuated ... Read More »

November 12, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Magic of Saida

By M.G. Vassanji

M.G. Vassanji’s new novel offers an experience as mysterious and haunting as hearing the sudden beat of drums in the middle of the night. In The Magic of Saida, the drumbeats are first heard in ... Read More »

November 5, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Astray

By Emma Donoghue

Following her 2010 Rogers Writers’ Trust Award–winning novel, Room, Emma Donoghue’s new story collection is an exploration of what it means to be the Other. Portrayed with uncanny insight and compassion, the characters who people ... Read More »

October 29, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Psychology and Other Stories

By C.P. Boyko

There is no story called “Psychology” in C.P. Boyko’s second collection. Instead, Boyko’s stories boldly assert that the practice of psychology – along with its cousins, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and self-help – is a type of ... Read More »

October 22, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Poison Shy

By Stacey Madden

The title of Stacey Madden’s debut novel refers to a term used in the extermination trade to describe how a pest learns to avoid poisons it has already encountered. In the human context the phrase ... Read More »

October 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box

By JonArno Lawson; Alec Dempster, illus.

Hanging around young children makes poets of us all. It is a serious stuffed shirt who can resist riffing on a kid’s name, inventing noises, repeating phrases, asking ridiculous questions, or dredging up shards of ... Read More »

October 18, 2012

Noisy Poems for a Busy Day

By Robert Heidbreder; Lori Joy Smith, illus.

October 18, 2012

Rainbow Shoes

By Tiffany Stone; Stefan Czernecki, illus.

October 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news

The Scratch on the Ming Vase

By Caroline Stellings

The Scratch on the Ming Vase has all the makings of a good mystery adventure story. Protagonist Nicki Haddon (a.k.a. Fu Yin) is a 16-year-old kung fu champion and modern-day Nancy Drew in the making. ... Read More »

October 18, 2012

That One Spooky Night

By Dan Bar-el; David Huyck, illus.

It’s not just free candy and costumes that spur kids to start getting excited about Halloween sometime in mid-January, it’s also the idea that, on this one night, the rules don’t apply and anything can ... Read More »

October 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

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Waging Heavy Peace

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Poison Shy

★ Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box

Noisy Poems for a Busy Day

Rainbow Shoes

The Scratch on the Ming Vase

That One Spooky Night

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