Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Frank Sinatra sang about waking up in the city that never sleeps. For a two-month period in 2001, Quebec animator and cartoonist Guy Delisle woke up in one that apparently never dreams. Delisle’s travelogue, Pyongyang; ... Read More »

August 22, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach

By Barbara Nickel

Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins is the link in this absorbing novel, in which music reaches across the centuries to connect two girls – a modern 12-year-old recently transplanted to Saskatchewan and the daughter of ... Read More »

August 22, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Skybreaker

By Kenneth Oppel

When you buy Kenneth Oppel’s Skybreaker, prepare to clear your schedule: you won’t be able to put down this ripping good yarn. In the sequel to Airborn, we reunite with Matt Cruse, now struggling with ... Read More »

August 15, 2005

Everything I Needed to Know About Business I Learned from a Canadian

By Leonard Brody and David Raffa

Entrepreneurs and authors Leonard Brody and David Raffa want you to know: Canadians are more entrepreneurial than they think they are. Using the success stories of 16 Canadians from diverse fields – everything from cosmetics to ... Read More »

August 10, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Wreckage

By Michael Crummey

The wreckage in the title of Michael Crummey’s new novel is that of the tsunami which struck Newfoundland in 1929, wiping out in an instant several outport communities. Aloysius Furey’s parents were swept away, and ... Read More »

August 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Martyr’s Oath: The Apprenticeship of an Al Qaeda Terrorist

By Stewart Bell

A few years back, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about suicide in the Pacific islands of Micronesia as a kind of phenomenon that “tipped” and became an epidemic. A few kids killed themselves. Then a few more. ... Read More »

August 2, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

By Diane Silvey; John Mantha, illus.

The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada responds to a glaring gap in Canadian children’s non-fiction. By adding aboriginal perspective to the written record, author Diane Silvey, an award-winning Coast Salish native writer, presents ... Read More »

July 25, 2005

Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys

By Candace Savage

With her new book, Crows, Saskatoon-based nature writer and historian Candace Savage turns her attention again to the world of crows and their corvine cousins (including magpies, jackdaws, and ravens). It’s territory she has mined ... Read More »

July 18, 2005 | Filed under: History

Eddie Longpants

By Mireille Levert

There’s always a breeze in a Marie-Louise Gay picture book – a zephyr, a gust, a balmy caress, or an outright gale – so that the natural world seems to jig and thrum with sheer ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Caramba

By Marie-Louise Gay