Houses of China

No, this isn’t a book about delicate dwellings shaped in fine porcelain. Bonnie Shemie’s successful and informative “Houses” series has taken a big jump, away from Native American houses, all the way to China. Houses ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Ultimate Hockey Trivia

By Don Weekes and Kerry Banks

TV producer and writer Don Weekes and Kerry Banks, recipient of the 1995 National Magazine Award for Sportswriting, have teamed up to produce Ultimate Hockey Trivia, a compendium for the enthusiast and ephemera aficionado alike. ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Steel Drums and Ice Skates

By Dirk McLean, Ho Che Anderson, illus.

Dirk McLean has written a compelling and simple story of a young Caribbean girl coming to Canada to join her parents after two years of separation. Hollie had stayed in Trinidad with Tanty Millie when ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Basketball Player

By Roch Carrier, Sheldon Cohen, illus., Sheila Fischman, trans.

This is the fourth in a sports-related series that began with the award-winning The Hockey Sweater. Once again, Carrier portrays with humour and pathos his younger self learning a useful lesson about life. On a ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Goldberg Variations

By Nancy Huston

The cover of Nancy Huston’s new release, Slow Emergencies, announces brazenly that she is the “Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Plainsong. Well. Sort of. This kind of truth-stretch will irk those who, when ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Slow Emergencies

By Nancy Huston

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sweat Equity: Entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada

By Allan Lynch

As veteran business writer Allan Lynch points out in his preface to Sweat Equity, Atlantic Canada is not generally perceived – either within the region or without – as a locus for economic success. Yet ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

If Wishes Were Horses

By W.P. Kinsella

Continuing his series of bestselling baseball sagas, White Rock, B.C. writer W.P. Kinsella brings nomadic pitcher Joe McCoy to the role of protagonist. Romping from bed to bed, he flops through a career of eight ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ken Thomson: Canada’s Enigmatic Billionaire

By Vic Parsons

Author Vic Parsons, a veteran journalist who spent six years with Thomson Newspapers, doesn’t hide his disdain for Canada’s richest capitalist, a reclusive press baron whose life bears little resemblance to that of the average ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

When We Were Young: A Collection of Canadian Stories

By selected by Stuart McLean

The broadcast industry has perfected the rerun, so we shouldn’t be surprised book publishers are following suit. They’ve put their own spin on the strategy, but the basic idea is the same: if something sells ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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