Rex Zero, the Great Pretender is the third instalment in the adventures of the preteen titular protagonist. Set in Ottawa in 1963, the new novel finds Rex about to start Grade 7 and looking forward ... Read More »
December 17, 2009
In 1955, Queen Elizabeth was given the puck with which Maurice Richard scored his record-breaking 325th goal. While in the schoolbook version of history, Canadians tend to go in for heroes in sensible shoes, like ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
In 1955, Queen Elizabeth was given the puck with which Maurice Richard scored his record-breaking 325th goal. While in the schoolbook version of history, Canadians tend to go in for heroes in sensible shoes, like ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Jack the Bear is Christina Leist’s first attempt at writing for children; she has, however, illustrated several other children’s books, and is an accomplished graphic artist. Her illustrations here are drawn on recycled paper shopping ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
Many readers first met Frieda Wishinsky’s delightful heroine in 2002’s Give Maggie a Chance, but both those new to and familiar with Maggie will warm to this latest story. Here we find the little cat ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books
In her 2007 collection of critical writings, Little Eurekas, Robyn Sarah cites the Canada Council’s definition of a collection of poetry, which states that it must contain more than 48 pages, as being detrimental to ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
In many ways, the debut collection from Toronto-based playwright and translator Soraya Peerbaye is a typical, even generic first book, built on rather serious free-verse and prose lyrics, and anecdotes focused on family history, post-colonial ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
Despite the fact that Shane Neilson has been writing and publishing poetry for some time, Meniscus is his first trade book of poems. It combines previously unpublished writing with material from earlier publications, such as ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry
For whatever reason, the 19th-century exploration, predominantly by British crews and ships, of what would become the Canadian Arctic is a big part of this country’s national mythology and cultural consciousness. The official goals of ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: History
“Lots of people tell me that they don’t always agree with what I write but like reading me anyway,” claims Margaret Wente in the introduction to her new book, which collects columns written for The ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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