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Edward the “crazy Man”

Marie Day’s latest picture book is a comic, fable-like story about creativity, mental illness, and the healing powers of friendship. One morning Charlie, a young boy, sees a homeless man named Edward dressed in a ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Abc of Canada

By Kim Bellefontaine

Kim Bellefontaine’s ABC is a better tool for teaching toddlers about Canada than for teaching the alphabet. Young readers catch glimpses of some of our cities and tourist spots. They are introduced to ice fishing, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Bear on the Bed

By Ruth Miller, Bill Slavin, illus.

With primary school audiences, there are few crowd-pleasers as reliable as toilet humour. Whether it’s jokes about farts or superheroes in underpants, anything along this subversive line hits the mark. In Ruth Miller’s new book, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Vernacular Drawings

By Seth

Cartoonist and illustrator Seth has played a definitive role in the modern underground comics movement. His illustration work has been seen in such publications as New York, The Globe and Mail, and The Washington Post, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Last Trip to Oregon: Poems in the Wake of Red’s Death

By George Payerle

Introductions to poetry collections can be a letdown for a reader, mapping too definitively terrain that should be left unexplored until one reaches the end. The introduction to George Payerle’s latest collection, however, poignantly explores ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Holding Pattern

By Shane Rhodes

This second poetry collection from Shane Rhodes takes a good long look at dualities. A selective list of the themes covered (and uncovered) in Holding Pattern might include memory and experience, science and religion, heterosexual ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture

By Bruce Grenville, ed.

The Uncanny is an ambitious compilation of essays relating to one of the past century’s most persistent images: the cyborg. Written by various cultural theorists, curators, and media critics, and complemented by neat images of ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse

By Norman Henderson

The open prairies tend to be ignored or considered fleetingly by many urbanites, a blur from a car heading elsewhere. But in the last decade titles like Don Gayton’s The Wheatgrass Mechanism, Sharon Butala’s The ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Freetown Ambush: A Reporter’s Year in Africa

By Ian Stewart

Most journalists are willing to endure the sacrifices of the job – mediocre pay, deadline stress, intrusions into personal life among them – because they adore being a conduit between events and the public. Foreign ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ten Thousand Scorpions: The Search for the Queen of Sheba’s Gold

By Larry Frolick

Larry Frolick is the brother of Vernon Frolick, author of the bestselling Fire into Ice, a biography of entrepreneurial geologist Chuck Fipke, the man who discovered Canada’s northern diamond deposits. Larry Frolick’s Ten Thousand Scorpions ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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Quill and Quire

Edward the “crazy Man”

Abc of Canada

The Bear on the Bed

Vernacular Drawings

The Last Trip to Oregon: Poems in the Wake of Red’s Death

Holding Pattern

The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture

Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse

Freetown Ambush: A Reporter’s Year in Africa

Ten Thousand Scorpions: The Search for the Queen of Sheba’s Gold

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