In the summer of 1942, Hitler sent a massive army of German tanks, bombers, and infantrymen east into Russia to take the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd). What was supposed to be a glorious victory ... Read More »
October 14, 2005
This meandering winter’s tale begins with the challenge of naming a snowman. Jenny rejects Frosty as “a stupid name” and then, after dismissing a host of others as too long, too short, too hot, or ... Read More »
October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
A celebration of babies, this picture book features a different infant or toddler for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by a four-line rhyme ending “Peek-a-little boo!” The catchy rhymes include nonsense syllables and simple ... Read More »
October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
"The first time I saw Audrey, I almost didn’t.” This intriguing sentence begins a story of enlightenment and finding friendship in unexpected places. One summer, bereft of his usual friends, Ray encounters a strange girl ... Read More »
October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books
The career path of adult fiction writers typically involves the publication of short stories in small literary magazines followed by a story collection or novel. Unfortunately, no such trajectory is available to children’s writers. In ... Read More »
October 14, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Toronto-based poet Karen Solie’s sophomore collection goes a long way toward fulfilling the promise augured by her Griffin-nominated rookie hit, Short Haul Engine. Think of all the dichotomous categories into which most contemporary poetry gets ... Read More »
October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
Oliver Cromwell, during his grim subjugation of Ireland, confiscated and burned 2,500 harps and crowded the prisons with harpers. Old Ironguts was one smart tyrant: he knew that to bring a people low, he needed ... Read More »
October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
It is unlikely that any field of human endeavour will surpass polar exploration in terms of the sheer number of spectacularly heroic failures it produced. Hundreds of men risked exposure, starvation, frostbite, and death in ... Read More »
October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In her third play, Trout Stanley, poet and playwright Claudia Dey presents Sugar and Grace Ducharme, a pair of seriously messed-up, non-identical twins burning off some hardcore bad karma. Try as they may, these girls ... Read More »
October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Bizarre Winery Tragedy is Vancouver-based literary journalist and fraud investigator Lyle Neff’s third poetry collection. As in his first two books, Neff’s voice is for the most part brash, alert, and inventive, and his subjects ... Read More »
October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
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