What can you do if your friends and family all take advantage of your good nature? When a lazy lion, a lion tamer, and a mouse all run away from the circus because they’re tired ... Read More »
April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books
Most children are enchanted by tales of their own antics when they were younger, and Henry’s no different. In a nightly ritual he asks his father to tell him about when he was small. And ... Read More »
April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books
Kids Can Press has released an unusual new picture book, Who Likes the Wind?, by Toronto teacher and award-winning science writer Etta Kaner. This story can be read two ways: as a simple expression of ... Read More »
April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books
The ticking of a clock, the ticking of a heart. Rachna Gilmore’s new story is a richly textured tale of family relationships, particularly between Cayley and her grandpa, who builds clocks. When he’s hospitalized after ... Read More »
April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Picture Books
To Gary Snyder, “we are all indigenous to this planet, this garden we are being called on … to reinhabit in good spirit.” For Edward O. Wilson, “nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, ... Read More »
April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The dodo bird is symbolic of humanity’s often indiscriminate domination over nature. Then along come disasters like the tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina to remind us that domination can go both ways. It is ... Read More »
April 4, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
So who is Dr. Delicious? By day, Robert Lecker is a (relatively) mild-mannered academic, a professor of Canadian writing and criticism at McGill. He was also one of the founders of ECW Press, who championed ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Alchemy, astronomy, cuckoldry, and would-be saints – Mark Frutkin’s newest novel, his 10th, is as full of action and ribaldry as an Italian commedia cellaret or a comedy by Shakespeare. Given that, Fabrizio’s Return should ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Appearing nightly: Las Vegas’s newest star and the country’s most ring-a-ding-ding impressionist, Jimmy Wynn! For his first novel, Jason Anderson has created a sort of parallel-universe Kennedy era (known here as the “Cannon era,” after ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Violent passions destroy, while friendship is peaceful and sustaining – or so we tend to believe. But as overwhelmingly as any physical affair, the friendship of Jonathan Swift dominated the life of Esther Johnson, the ... Read More »
April 3, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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