La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs

La Primera is an attractive pairing of a song by Canadian folk-music legend Ian Tyson and a set of paintings by Saskatchewan-born Adeline Halvorson. Following the history of mustangs from 1493, when the first such ... Read More »

April 15, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Lord of the Sky

By Linda Zeman-Spaleny; Ludmila Zeman, illus.

This book is a family project that began life as a 1991 animated short film. First-time author Linda Zeman-Spaleny is the daughter of Ludmila Zeman and Eugen Spaleny, the directors, scriptwriters, and animators of the ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Farley Follows His Nose

By Lynn Johnston and Beth Cruikshank; Lynn Johnston, illus.

When we last saw Farley, the scruffily loveable and loveably scruffy sheepdog from Lynn Johnston’s beloved strip For Better or For Worse, he was, well, dead, having snuffed it while rescuing the Patterson family’s youngest ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dance Baby Dance

By Andrea Spalding

As its title suggests, the text of this board book for the very young is about dancing. In it, Baby is urged to dance – with sister, Teddy, friends, the sun and the moon, in ... Read More »

April 14, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Swim the Fly

By Don Calame

Reading like a cross between Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Karate Kid, Don Calame’s Swim the Fly finds nerdy 15-year-old Matt Gratton conspiring with his equally nerdy buddies, Cooper and Sean, to achieve ... Read More »

April 8, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Amphibian

By Carla Gunn

Phin Walsh, the nine-year-old narrator of Carla Gunn’s debut novel, is the kind of kid who could only be described as “sensitive.” Hours spent watching documentaries on the Green Channel have left him better informed ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fall

By Colin McAdam

The “Fall” in the title of this finely crafted thriller is Fallon DeStindt, a student at an exclusive Ottawa-area boarding school who mysteriously disappears halfway through the book. Two people who seem to be implicated ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gun Dogs

By James Langer

For a first book, Gun Dogs is assured and mature, clearly the product of a lengthy and well-spent apprenticeship. James Langer is one of several Canadian poets, including Steven Price, Matt Rader, and Joe Denham, ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry

By Mona Fertig and Harold Rhenisch, eds.

Rocksalt, “the first anthology of British Columbia poetry since 1977,” as it’s billed in co-editor Harold Rhenisch’s introductory remarks, includes the work of 108 contemporary Canadian poets who lay some claim to being from our ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Dante’s War

By Sandra Sabatini

In Dante’s War, Sandra Sabatini portrays fascist Italy through the lives of two young Italians: Dante becomes a soldier in the Second World War, while Angelina works on her family’s farm in a rural village. ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs

Lord of the Sky

Farley Follows His Nose

Dance Baby Dance

★ Swim the Fly

★ Amphibian

Fall

Gun Dogs

Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry

Dante’s War

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