Sasha and the Wind

By Rhea Tregebov, Hélène Desputeaux, illus.

Sasha loves the wind, and so do his friends, but after two fire alarms force Sasha’s class out into a blowing snowstorm, Sasha becomes frightened of the wind. He isn’t able to relax until he ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

I Heard the Drums

By Allen Sapp

Allen Sapp’s paintings of Cree life in the Saskatchewan prairies during the 1930s and 40s are all about lyrical nostalgia, but the self-taught artist is so unabashed in his remembrance of the way things were, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Whatever You Do, Don’t Go Near That Canoe!

By Julie Lawson, Werner Zimmermann, illus.

Warned not to touch Captain McKee’s canoe, no matter what, two children and a toy kangaroo hijack it and head out to sea in the fading light. They have an extraordinary adventure with five dozen ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Night the Moon Blew Kisses

By Lynn Manuel, Robin Spowart, illus.

This whimsical picture book for the very young is British Columbia writer Lynn Manuel’s first. Dedicated to her grandson, it tells the story of a child and a grandmother taking a walk in the moonlight. ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Mary Margaret’s Tree

By Blair Drawson

As a modern-day Alice of sorts, Mary Margaret enters her wonderland from the base of a tree. But here she contends with none of the unpleasant ambiguities of Carroll’s fantasy realm; instead, her adventure is ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By Victor Hugo, retold by Tim Wynne-Jones, Bill Slavin illus.

This is the year of The Hunchback, and fortunately Tim Wynne-Jones has provided young readers with an astringent version of the Victor Hugo story to contrast the saccharine and confusing mess that the Disney corporation ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Sarah and the People of Sand River

By W.D. Valgardson, Ian Wallace, illus.

This gripping book set in the 1870s tells the story of Sarah, a 12-year-old Manitoba girl with Icelandic roots. Sarah must go to Winnipeg, where she is to learn English and be a lady. Before ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Venetian’s Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Transformation

By Nick Bantock

The author of the very successful Griffin & Sabine trilogy, British-born B.C. islander Nick Bantock, has written The Venetian’s Wife, a novel that is part picture book, part e-mail correspondence. But if the methods of ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Starplex

By Robert J. Sawyer

Starplex, by Thornhill, Ontario writer Robert J. Sawyer, involves the discovery of a new alien race and an apparently abandoned network of “shortcuts” – hyperspace portals that allow spacecraft to whisk about the universe. Sawyer, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You Went Away

By Timothy Findley

Ahead of anything else, there is, in the matter of Timothy Findley’s You Went Away, a minor and yet nevertheless nagging question of classification. Why, that question goes, is You Went Away being introduced into ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

Sasha and the Wind

I Heard the Drums

Whatever You Do, Don’t Go Near That Canoe!

The Night the Moon Blew Kisses

Mary Margaret’s Tree

★ The Hunchback of Notre Dame

★ Sarah and the People of Sand River

The Venetian’s Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Transformation

Starplex

You Went Away

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