★ Free the Children

One has to read autobiography with a skeptical eye. Most memoirists, being human, tend to present themselves in the best possible light and to employ selective amnesia, especially when a ghostwriter is holding the pen. ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Closely Guarded: A Life in Canadian Security and Intelligence

By John Starnes

John Starnes has had a long career in External Affairs and as director-general of the RCMP Security Service. He is also the author of five spy novels. Closely Guarded is a personal narrative of Starnes’ ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Don’t Think Twice

By Alison Lohans

This is a coming-of-age book with a twist; it’s Mom’s coming of age, twice. We meet Jan Crowther in mid-life, an emotional and physical wreck, desperate to find her runaway daughter, Lisa. To soothe her ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Garden

By Carol Matas

In this novel, Carol Matas takes up the story of her character Ruth Mendenberg from November 1947 to April 1948, the uncertain period leading up to the establishment of a Jewish state. It’s the sequel ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

By Wendy E. Barry, Margaret Anne Doody, Mary E. Doody Jones, eds.

On May 2, 1907, L.M. Montgomery wrote, in a letter to a prairie homesteader she had been corresponding with, of the good news that her book manuscript had been accepted by a publisher. In this ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat

By Lynn Manuel, Janet Wilson, illus.

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Lighthouse Dog

By Betty Waterton, Dean Griffiths, illus.

The Lighthouse Dog is the latest in the series of West Coast picture books that Orca does so well. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. The book is well presented and captures West ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Erik the Viking Sheep

By Elizabeth Creith, Linda Hendry, illus.

Erik, an Icelandic sheep with red wool, arrives at the sheep farm one day. After listening to a little girl’s stories about the Vikings, he starts to imagine that he is Erik the Viking Sheep, ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Anything for a Laugh

By Eric Nicol

Memoirs are reader favourites, especially those that delve into salacious confession. The more gender bending, spouse swapping, and drug-taking the author exposes, the more copies they sell. Anything for a Laugh, award-winning author and humorist ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

By Michael Ignatieff

The main challenge of capturing Isaiah Berlin as a biographical subject is that he was a talker. Philosophers are said to privilege the spoken over the written word, but even among his philosophical peers his ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Erik the Viking Sheep

Anything for a Laugh

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