Thanks to virtuoso publications in the 1990s by Budge Wilson, Martha Brooks, Sarah Ellis, Tim Wynne-Jones, R.P. MacIntyre, and others, YA short story writing in Canada is in the midst of a golden age. Be ... Read More »
March 8, 2004
A classic tale of friendship, Andersen’s The Snow Queen is retold here by Toronto librarian and storyteller Ken Setterington, and illustrated with filigree cut-paper art (scherenschnitt) by Nelly and Ernst Hofer. The result is a ... Read More »
March 8, 2004
Pithy questions and differing points of view make this book a source of material for serious thought and lively debate about the world’s Far North. Ann Love and Jane Drake, sisters who have co-authored a ... Read More »
March 8, 2004
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway is a remarkable story, and this informative new book from Kids Can does quite a good job of presenting it. An experienced writer of non-fiction books, Hodge works ... Read More »
March 8, 2004
One of Canada’s most important female artists, Emily Carr was also one of the first to sympathize deeply with First Nations people. Out of her personal struggles emerged a vivid, elemental art rooted in the ... Read More »
March 8, 2004
Only once every 3,000 years do a Western millennium year and a Chinese golden dragon year coincide. Acclaimed artist and book illustrator Song Nan Zhang and his journalist son, Hao Yu Zhang, have co-authored a ... Read More »
March 8, 2004
The idea of capturing the nearly five-billion-year history of our planet in a 64-page book for children is daunting. But prize-winning science journalist Margaret Munro, who interviewed geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists in her research, ... Read More »
March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Although Castles in the Sea is a book about icebergs – how they are formed, how they travel, and how they eventually die – the text reads like poetry. From the very beginning (“Far away, ... Read More »
March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Authors
In Gayle Friesen’s second novel, Men of Stone, 15-year-old Ben Conrad is hardly thrilled when his great-aunt Frieda comes to stay for several weeks. Ambitiously, Friesen, whose acclaimed first novel, Janey’s Girl, won a host ... Read More »
March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
We live in a time when to be a migrant or refugee is one of the commonest human conditions,” writes Janice Kulyk Keefer, who has memorably addressed the refugee experience in her award-winning fiction and ... Read More »
March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
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