This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape

The “ragged place” in Terry Glavin’s splendid book is British Columbia. Not glossy downtown Vancouver or the clipped precincts of Victoria, but the sloughs and inlets and broken volcanic valleys located at the edges of ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries

By Di Brandt

By the standards of everyday discourse, feminist, Mennonite poet Di Brandt appears to be a bundle of paradoxes – if not an absolute oxymoron. But the Manitoba writer’s collection of essays, Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium

By Michael Adams

What is it with these guys? Earlier this year we had demographer David Foot telling us in Boom, Bust and Echo that demographic research explains “two-thirds of everything.” Then we had Angus Reid warning in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

At Grandpa’s Sugar Bush

By Margaret Carney, Janet Wilson, illus.

This straightforward account of maple syrup making is told in first person by a boy of about seven. He and his grandfather drill holes, tap in spiles (spouts driven into the trees), hang pails, and ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Wagner Whacker

By Joseph Romain

This is one of Vanwell’s first excursions into children’s fiction and it promises good things. Matt Killburn is miserable because his mother is making him move from Kitchener to a farm in the country, leaving ... Read More »

March 5, 2004

The Stone Orchard

By Susan Merritt

Who were the Fenians and what were they doing in Canada in 1866? In The Stone Orchard, writer and lawyer Susan Merritt tackles these historical questions through the story of 14-year-old Maud Fraser, who finds ... Read More »

March 5, 2004

The Seven Magpies

By Monica Hughes

Monica Hughes’ 30 books for young people are remarkably varied, from her celebrated Isis sci-fi series to historical fiction to realism. What they share is engaging, forthright characters with a keen awareness of the world. ... Read More »

March 5, 2004

Tiger’s New Cowboy Boots

By Irene Morck, Georgia Graham, illus.

Tyler is very proud of his new cowboy boots, bought for the annual cattle drive at Uncle Roy’s farm in the Rocky Mountain foothills. A city slicker, Tyler’s only worn runners before. Now, happily shod, ... Read More »

March 5, 2004

Christopher Changes His Name

By Itah Sadu, Roy Condy, illus.

Christopher Kwame Mulamba may be a hero for all the kids who have ever railed against the injustice of the grinding banality, or excessive originality, of their given names. Christopher thinks he’s a special kid ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Edmund and Hillary: A Tale from China Plate Farm

By Chris Jackson

Author-illustrator Chris Jackson’s first children’s book is a funny, delightful animal fable about a somewhat unlikely friendship between a pig (Edmund) and hen (Hillary), and their attempts to find solutions for each other’s unfulfillable longings. ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries

Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium

At Grandpa’s Sugar Bush

The Wagner Whacker

The Stone Orchard

The Seven Magpies

Tiger’s New Cowboy Boots

Christopher Changes His Name

★ Edmund and Hillary: A Tale from China Plate Farm

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