The Mole Sisters and the Piece of Moss

This new series for very young children seems deliberately designed to evoke the early classics of children’s literature with their charming animal characters. The mole sisters are a delightful pair whose optimism brightens up even ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Down There by the Train

By Kate Sterns

Kate Sterns’ second novel, Down There by the Train, takes its cue from Alice in Wonderland, but in Sterns’ world Alice is dead and it is her older brother, Levon, who falls down the rabbit ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The African Safari Papers

By Robert Sedlack

The African Safari Papers, documentary filmmaker Robert Sedlack’s first novel, is the fictional record of 19-year-old Richard Clark’s journey through Kenya with his alcoholic father and psychologically precarious mother. Young Richard intends to write a ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Me and Mr. Mah

By Andrea Spalding, Janet Wilson, illus.

British Columbia author Andrea Spalding’s latest is a sensitive tale about gardens, growing sunflowers, the importance of memories, and the rewards of friendship.The narrator, Ian, is a prairie boy who, when his parents separate, moves ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Middle Stories

By Sheila Heti

Despite the numerous death-of-fiction pronouncements made over the last half-century, some writers continue to search for ways to reanimate the form. Toronto’s Sheila Heti is one such writer. In her first collection of fiction she ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bear on the Train

By Julie Lawson, Brian Deines, illus.

In Bear On the Train, a hungry bear follows the smell of grain right into a railway car. By the time the train pulls out, the bear is ready to hibernate and sleeps through the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Dreamstones

By Maxine Trottier, Stella East, illus.

Inukshuks – those strange human-like figures of piled rocks that are such a distinctive emblem of the Canadian Arctic – provide a centre for Maxine Trottier’s haunting story of a young boy lost in the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Saning

By Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers’ latest collection of poems is a delicate masterwork of brutality, a rich evocation of the tragedy and magic of human existence. Little prepares the reader for the intensity and deep pleasure The Saning ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Hundred Block Rock

By Bud Osborn

Bud Osborn is one of those rare poets with something important to say. And we should listen. In fact, Hundred Block Rock should be required reading for every CEO in North America … not to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Add Kids, Stir Briskly, or How I Learned to Love My Life

By Jo Owens

Anthropologist Jean Liedloff, in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, bemoans the fact that Western parents are so out of touch with their natural instincts about parenting that they have to consult books written by ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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The Mole Sisters and the Piece of Moss

Down There by the Train

The African Safari Papers

Me and Mr. Mah

The Middle Stories

Bear on the Train

★ Dreamstones

The Saning

Hundred Block Rock

Add Kids, Stir Briskly, or How I Learned to Love My Life

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