Michael Bedard’s picture book forte is in creating a lyrical mood piece. Like The Divide, his fine new book about Willa Cather, Glass Town delves into how a child becomes a writer. A foreword and ... Read More »
February 27, 2004
Lavender Moon is the name of the woman who has served up cherry pie and coffee in a small café to the passengers of the late-night bus for 20 years. As time passes, Lavender Moon ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Where is Kevin Major going? Twenty years ago, the young Newfoundland author burst onto the literary scene with a proud, angry young-adult novel called Hold Fast that won a Canada Council Award for Children’s Literature ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
It’s a familiar literary scenario: in a lush, troubled country lives a family of women. Their men have all died tragically or abandoned them scandalously. The iron-willed matriarch maintains order through numerous disasters, but her ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Tell me, is there a Canadian, male or female, who doesn’t know what a Zamboni is? Miriam Toews, in her second novel A Boy of Good Breeding, would have us believe that in spring 1996 ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Anyone who’s read the liner notes from a favourite record or CD knows how flat and even clumsy song lyrics can sound alone on paper. Yet children’s songs are often produced in picturebook form. When ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Anyone who’s read the liner notes from a favourite record or CD knows how flat and even clumsy song lyrics can sound alone on paper. Yet children’s songs are often produced in picturebook form. When ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
This book has “beautiful” written all over it, full of deep snowdrifts and cozy three-storey Victorian houses with your own beautiful room at the top. Written in the lyrical style of Hundal’s award-winning I Heard ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The story of the Moccasin Goalie continues: Danny, Petou, and Anita have been asked to play for the Wolves, and the team has made it to the finals. That alone should prove the three are ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
“My novels aren’t ideas...I begin with the characters, which leads me to the problems that the characters are prone to have, which yields a story – every time.” The speaker here is Ruth Cole, one ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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