Kim, 13, has very mixed feelings about spending the summer in South Africa. She is excited to be visiting her mother’s homeland (which her mother, a journalist, left for Canada just before Kim’s birth) and ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
Mary Sheppard’s second novel in the continuing series Tales from Cook’s Cove tells the story of Issy Heffernan, a young girl in outport Newfoundland in the early 1970s. Issy feels awkward and isolated, in part ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
The most touching parts of My Life As a Dame, a collection of punditry and feature writing from journalist Christina McCall, who died in 2005, are the brief but heartfelt introductions to each chapter penned ... Read More »
June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
A new head rises from the eyeball-strewn swamps of children’s horror, in the form of Montrealer P.J. Bracegirdle (his real name, or so he maintains). Librarians who turned a cold shoulder to Goosebumps and its ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
“Neoclassical economics,” writes Edmonton-born mathematician David Orrell, “sees the world in terms of independent, autonomous agents that act to maximize their own utility, measured in terms of financial success.” Such thinking is full of erroneous ... Read More »
June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Although the new book from Toronto author Cary Fagan lists a very narrow age range, the only prerequisite for enjoying Mr. Karp’s Last Glass is an ability to read, whatever your age. Eleven-year-old Randolph, who ... Read More »
June 25, 2008
Double Lives, an anthology of essays about the occasionally warring roles of writer and mother, is not for everyone. Though much of the book will appeal to busy mothers of all kinds, on the whole ... Read More »
June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Charles Foran’s first collection of essays is an eclectic compilation of travel and literary writings that reveals a preoccupation, not always clearly articulated, with establishing a connection to the present age and feeling the truth ... Read More »
June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
It’s a convention of kids’ books – think Anne of Green Gables – that the hero or heroine is more articulate than most of the people around them. Certainly that’s the case with the eponymous ... Read More »
June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Per-Henrik Gürth, illustrator of the classic Canadiana picture books Canada 123 and ABC of Canada, returns with his fifth Kids Can Press book. Once again, simple text that’s pleasant but nothing special (Gürth’s own this ... Read More »
June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books
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