Lu & Clancy’s Spy Stuff

Lu and Clancy, the canine sleuths who introduced kids to secret codes and crime science in two earlier books, have returned with a new story and a set of activities for the junior espionage set.Lu ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Sleepy Little Mouse

By Eugenie Fernandes, Kim Fernandes, illus.

A very tired little mouse who doesn’t want to nap, no matter how much her mother tries to lull her, kicks and cries until she floods her bedroom with tears and her bed floats out ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Three Prince Charming Tales: Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel

By Marilyn Helmer, Kasia Charko, illus.

Some critics think we’ve had enough of these passive girls modelling beauty and marriage to our daughters. But there is a mysterious power in these tales of girls with memorable names who marry anonymous fellows. ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Stella, Queen of the Snow

By Marie-Louise Gay

Prolific, award-winning Montreal author/illustrator Marie-Louise Gay has delightful access to the world seen through a child’s eyes. Stella, Queen of the Snow is a wonderful picture book – child-oriented, fancifully illustrated, joyful, funny, and sweet. ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Trouble Sleeping

By Phil Hall

Phil Hall describes his latest work as a haiban, “a Japanese form of interwoven journey-prose and poetry,” which he uses to explore his troubled childhood in Rokeby, situated in northeastern Ontario. Trouble Sleeping evokes the ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Bare Plum of Winter Rain

By Patrick Lane

Patrick Lane’s newest collection of poetry filters the big questions – about life, death, and all that happens in between – through the soft light of nostalgia. Earnest and unadorned, Lane’s poems are misty-eyed meditations ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Ratz Are Nice (PSP)

By Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

In Vancouver’s street punk culture, West Coast writer and performer Lawrence Braithwaite has found both the subject and the esthetic with which to further exploit the stylistic territory he began exploring in his 1994 novella ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Penelope’s Way

By Blanche Howard

At the age of 70, Penelope Stephens creates a list of life goals. On reviewing them, she decides to find the meaning of life rather than take up snowboarding. It is meant to be a ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I’m Frankie Sterne

By Dave Margoshes

At various times a jazz musician, freedom fighter, beatnik, and logger, Frankie Sterne drifts through mid-20th-century North America without making much of an impression, either on the people he encounters or on the reader.The book ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The First Time

By Joy Fielding

Joy Fielding’s new novel holds some surprises for her fans, as she moves from the genre of suspense to that of romance. In The First Time, the author of Don’t Cry Now and Missing Pieces ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Lu & Clancy’s Spy Stuff

Sleepy Little Mouse

Three Prince Charming Tales: Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel

★ Stella, Queen of the Snow

Trouble Sleeping

The Bare Plum of Winter Rain

Ratz Are Nice (PSP)

Penelope’s Way

I’m Frankie Sterne

The First Time

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