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Ben’s Big Dig

By Daniel Wakeman; Dirk van Stralen, illus.

You create a world. I’ll come visit. This is the tacit but essential bargain struck between reader and writer. In picture books this agreement is a group negotiation as reader and writer are joined by ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Crocodiles Say

By Robert Heidbreder; Rae Maté, illus.

You create a world. I’ll come visit. This is the tacit but essential bargain struck between reader and writer. In picture books this agreement is a group negotiation as reader and writer are joined by ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Rainbows in the Dark

By Jan Coates; Alice Priestley, illus.

In Rainbows in the Dark, a picture book by Wolfville, Nova Scotia, author Jan Coates, a young girl helps a blind musician find the perfect outfit for a concert, making new friends with both the ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Puppies on Board

By Sarah Harvey; Rose Cowles, illus.

When 11 puppies are born on board the Brady Lee, Mollie’s family boat, she finds each puppy uniquely charming, though her mother says one dog is enough. Mollie names the whole litter after characters in ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Bright Red Kisses

By Teresa Toten; Deirdre Betteridge, illus.

Teresa Toten’s first picture book, Bright Red Kisses, takes an ordinary occurrence in a young child’s life – mom going out for the evening – and turns it into something extraordinary and magical.A little girl ... Read More »

November 21, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ April Fool

By William Deverell

Arthur Ransome Beauchamp has risen yet again. The fusty, feisty, now-retired lawyer is alive and reasonably well on his Garibaldi Island home in William Deverell’s new novel, April Fool.The action begins when Nick “The Owl” ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The City Man

By Howard Akler

Howard Akler’s debut novel, The City Man, is an engrossing and entertaining quick read. Part crime novel, part love story, The City Man is set in Toronto over three months in 1934. Swiftly moving scenes, ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Lady of Mazes

By Karl Schroeder

That cracking sound you hear 50 pages or so into Lady of Mazes, the new science fiction novel from Toronto writer Karl Schroeder? No, that’s not the sound of a fictional world coming to an ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Children of the Day

By Sandra Birdsell

The day of the title is June 14 (two days before Bloomsday, as it happens), 1953. But through memory, family stories, a snatch of song, even a single word – “Ja” – Sandra Birdsell expands ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Chi

On November 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk was swarmed and beaten under a bridge on Vancouver Island by a group of predominantly young girls. That the event was horrific and shocking is uncontested. That the ... Read More »

November 18, 2005 | Filed under: Reference

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