Gruntle Piggle Takes off

Gruntle Piggle and her parents are city pigs who live on the 10th floor of the Pig’s Digs. When Gruntle’s grandfather Streaky Bacon sends her a pair of rollerblades, she is determined to thank him. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Back to the Cabin

By Ann Blades

In the 25 years since the landmark publication of Ann Blades’ Mary of Mile 18, picture book fads and fashions have come and gone, and Blades has continued to write and paint in her own ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Risk and Redemption: Surviving the Network News Wars

By Arthur Kent

In the early days of 1991, Arthur Kent got mail like he’d never got mail before. These were Gulf War days and the Calgary-born Kent was an NBC correspondent in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when Iraq’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Long Shot: Steve Nash’s Journey to the NBA

By Jeff Rud

On June 26, 1996, the Phoenix Suns selected a young basketball player named Steve Nash 15th in the NBA draft, making him only the second player produced by Canadian high schools to be selected in ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen

By Ira B. Nadel

Ira B. Nadel has written authoritatively on the art of biography. He has also had a previous run at the life of Leonard Cohen in a slender volume for ECW, which augured well for a ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rebel Daughter: An Autobiography

By Doris Anderson

In an era of post-feminist posturings, of “bad girl,” blame-the-date-rape-victim journalists, and of tell-all “toxic parent” biographies, Doris Anderson’s restrained, dignified, and unabashedly feminist autobiography, Rebel Daughter, is a breath of fresh air.Born illegitimate and ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Drumblair

By Rachel Manley

The title of Rachel Manley’s family memoir is odd at first, and therefore intriguing, but by the end it simply seems sentimental. Drumblair, rambling and idiosyncratic, was the house of Norman and Edna Manley, the ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast: A Memoir of the Seventies

By Douglas Fetherling

It seems fitting that Douglas Fetherling has become a Boswell of one of Canada’s great polymaths, the late, learned George Woodcock. He is something of a self-taught renaissance man himself, bidding to be as prolific ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995

By Robertson Davies

When Robertson Davies died last December, it wasn’t difficult to predict that posthumous work would soon begin to appear. The Merry Heart, which collects speeches and articles from the novelist’s last 15 years, is the ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

An Ecological Guide to a North Temperate Garden: Bioplanning for the Next Millennium

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Voltaire’s Candide saw a world full of misery, and concluded that one must cultivate one’s garden. Those of us who love gardening anyway will be glad to know that we really can make a difference, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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