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Someone Is Reading This Book

These two new picture books deal with reading in radically different ways. In The Girl Who Hated Books, Meena lives in a house crammed with books of all kinds. Her parents are obsessive readers, and ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Girl Who Hated Books

By Manjusha Pawagi, Leanne Franson, illus.

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Midnight in the Mountains

By Julie Lawson, Sheena Lott, illus.

A young girl sits by the fire. This is her first night in the mountain cabin, and although her parents and her brother are asleep, she is excited and wakeful. As the fire burns to ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Arctic Stories

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Langer Krykorka, illus.

Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Langer Krykorka, collaborators on A Promise Is a Promise, have created another colourful mixture of Northern legend and historical fact. Arctic Stories is based on Kusugak’s childhood experiences in the ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Ark in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Times

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

In the same vein as the hugely popular Politically Correct Bedtime Stories for Adults comes a Canadian version. The Ark in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Times, collected by anthologist Alberto Manguel, is ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Preferred Lies: A Collection of Short Stories

By Wayne Curtis

The 13 stories in Wayne Curtis’s collection Preferred Lies are mainly set in the Maritimes, and deal with ordinary people in ordinary situations. Loneliness is one of the dominant themes. In “Winter’s Night,” an old ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Flesh and Blood

By Michael Crummey

Poet Michael Crummey’s first collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood, is a mixture of the magical and the mundane, the extraordinary and the everyday. Crummey casts his storytelling net into the depths of small-town ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Worlds Within Her

By Neil Bissoondath

In The Worlds Within Her Neil Bissoondath picks up where he left off in his previous fiction – chronicling the small, crucial emotional turning points in ordinary lives. When we first meet Bissoondath’s protagonist Yasmin, ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Splitting up: Divorce, Culture, and the Search for a Real Life

By Larry Frolick

In a world of perpetual change the traditional concept of marriage – constancy, fidelity, familiarity – is an institution completely at odds with the times we live in.While we still crave the intimacy of stable ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Raffi: The Life of a Children’s Troubadour

By Raffi Cavoukian

While Raffi Cavoukian tells a success story – a 1960s dropout achieves wealth, international fame, and favourite-son status in Canada – it is not to be confused with the usual self-promoting celebrity autobiography.It is also ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Someone Is Reading This Book

The Girl Who Hated Books

Midnight in the Mountains

★ Arctic Stories

The Ark in the Garden and Other Fables for Our Times

Preferred Lies: A Collection of Short Stories

Flesh and Blood

The Worlds Within Her

Splitting up: Divorce, Culture, and the Search for a Real Life

Raffi: The Life of a Children’s Troubadour

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