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Kitchen for Kids: 100 Amazing Recipes Your Children Can Really Make

Some of the best cookbooks are those you enjoy reading outside the kitchen for their own sake. Kitchen for Kids is one of these: it is a pleasure to browse because of its gorgeous design, ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Catharine Parr Traill: Backwoods Pioneer

By Carol Martin

In Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, the admonishing spirit of Catharine Parr Traill urges Morag to get busy as Traill did, planting an orchard, discovering and naming wildflowers, writing books with, as Traill puts it, “some ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Making It Home: The Story of Catherine Parr Traill

By Lynn Westerhout

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ A Home for Foundlings

By Marthe Jocelyn

In 18th-century London, poor unwed mothers often abandoned their babies to die. But in 1741 the efforts of Thomas Coram led to a better option: the Foundling Hospital, where desperate mothers could bring their babies ... Read More »

January 21, 2005

Tenor of Love

By Mary di Michele

Like scratchy ancient recordings remastered and yellowed photographs restored, Mary di Michele’s Tenor of Love gives us an Enrico Caruso as bright and clear as prose can render him. Her Caruso comes alive as a ... Read More »

January 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Little Bug

By Paola van Turennout

Children’s books that are also works of art have been the territory of Tundra Books since its beginning. Canny pairings of writers and illustrators, the creative press-ganging of artists from the mainstream world of gallery ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Flying Canoe

By Roch Carrier, Sheila Fischman, trans., Sheldon Cohen, illus.

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Raymond and Hannah

By Stephen Marche

When asked in a recent interview about his legacy as a movie director, Woody Allen replied that his work, despite the praise and respect it has received, has had little direct influence on younger filmmakers. ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Full Speed Through the Morning Dark

By Matthew Tierney

Matthew Tierney’s Full Speed Through the Morning Dark is supposed to be a book of travel poems. In it we read stories of Tierney’s travels in Japan, China, Mongolia, Russia, and Ireland. The main problem ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook: Creole Cuisine from New Orleans to Nova Scotia

By Daniel Abel, Charles Leary, and Vaughn Perret

This cookbook is based on recipes from the cooking school and restaurant at Trout Point Lodge in Nova Scotia. The authors’ goal is to use fresh, organic local ingredients while maintaining a connection with the ... Read More »

December 22, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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Quill and Quire

Kitchen for Kids: 100 Amazing Recipes Your Children Can Really Make

Catharine Parr Traill: Backwoods Pioneer

Making It Home: The Story of Catherine Parr Traill

★ A Home for Foundlings

Tenor of Love

One Little Bug

★ The Flying Canoe

Raymond and Hannah

Full Speed Through the Morning Dark

The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook: Creole Cuisine from New Orleans to Nova Scotia

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