★ The Russländer

Imagination thrives on history and geography, and Sandra Birdsell’s imagination is fecund. The Russländer is her fifth book and the first to probe her maternal ancestral origins, her Mennonite roots in Russia. Birdsell – who ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Story

By Denise Chong

It is one of the most recognizable and potent images of the 20th century: a naked girl runs screaming along a dirt road toward the camera, the sky behind her dark and burning with napalm. ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

By Naomi Klein

Toronto journalist Naomi Klein’s No Logo is certain to become a well-thumbed handbook for consumer activists, but it will hardly thrill fashion doyennes, advertising moguls, or mega-corporation CEOs.Klein writes with passion and panache, skewering ever-burgeoning ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cat’s Crossing

By Bill Cameron

One of Toronto’s most prominent television anchors makes his first foray into fiction with this novel about a city ignited by a $2-million reward for a lost cat. When Julia discovers that her cat Jones ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Streak of Luck

By Richelle Kosar

For her second novel, Toronto writer Richelle Kosar imagines that life-altering event that we’ve all dreamed of at one time or another – winning the lottery. Appropriately, she uses this plot vehicle to discuss the ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Broken Accidents

By Phlip Arima

In this collection of punchy short-short stories, performance poet Phlip Arima delivers a quirky mix: dark satire of our preoccupation with convenience, consumerism, and convention; surreal journeys into the subconscious; and confounding dialogues. When they ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Did Dinosaurs Eat? and Other Things You Want to Know About Dinosaurs

By Elizabeth MacLeod, Gordon Sauvé, illus.

What Did Dinosaurs Eat? is the second collaboration between Toronto author Elizabeth MacLeod and Hamilton, Ontario, illustrator Gordon Sauvé. The first, Dinosaurs: The Fastest, the Fiercest, the Most Amazing, covered similar ground, introducing younger children ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

A First Book of Canadian Art

By Richard Rhodes

This gorgeous book proves that Canadian art doesn’t begin and end with the Group of Seven. It takes the reader on a journey through the history of our art, from the petroglyphs and masks of ... Read More »

January 30, 2004

Ghosts

By Sylvia Funston, Joe Weissmann, illus.

With Halloween on the horizon, Sylvia Funston’s Ghosts arrives at just the right time to explain the history, science, and mythology of spirits. The text reunites the prolific Funston (Scary Science, Animal Smarts) with illustrator ... Read More »

January 30, 2004

The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts

By Valerie Wyatt, John Mantha, illus.

How many kids know that the first Canadian to climb the dizzy heights of Mount Everest was Calgarian Laurie Skreslet in 1982? Or that Superman first flew in 1932 in the imagination of his creator, ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Authors

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