Jessica’s X-ray

Jessica’s X-Ray provides a look at health care from the perspective of a child. After falling from a tree, young Jessica is taken to the hospital where a doctor orders an x-ray of her arm. ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella

By Laura Whipple, Laura Beingessner, illus.

Since her first print appearance in 1697, in Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose’s Tales, Cinderella has maintained a dizzily high profile. Featured more frequently than any other fairy-tale character, the char maiden turned princess has represented ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Princesses Are Not Quitters!

By Kate Lum, Sue Hellard, illus.

Three young princesses live a luxurious life in their palace by the sea, but they are b-o-r-e-d. One day they see three servant girls walking by with buckets of milk, and decide that “servants have ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Jade Necklace

By Paul Yee, Grace Lin, illus.

The children in Paul Yee’s award-winning books are haunted by their pasts. Often forced by circumstances to emigrate from their beloved China, they feel “caught between two worlds” like Yee, a third-generation Chinese Canadian who ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pavilion

By Stephanie Bolster

Poetry collections that include long lists of books that “shaped the development” of the work often suffer from one of two problems: either the poems are so bloated with information that they plod along like ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Killing Things

By John Degen

John Degen’s 2000 poetry debut, The Animal Life of Budapest, was a slim, strong evocation of a very particular city and its discontents. Killing Things pursues his fascination with place, stopping in London, New York, ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Canada Gold: Men & Women Hockey Champions

When the Canadian men’s hockey team beat the Americans in Salt Lake City, it ended a 50-year drought of Olympic hockey gold. This was big news in a country that prides itself as a hockey ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Dark Paths, Cold Trails: A Mountie’s Quest to Link Serial Killers to Their Victims

By Doug Clark

A book that devotes several chapters to the likes of Clifford Olson and Paul Bernardo is bound to compel attention. And the sections of Dark Paths, Cold Trails where author Doug Clark sets out to ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

2030: Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime

By Robert Hunter

Author and Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter is at his angry best in 2030 when drawing out the scientifically proven (yes, proven) causes of climate change and the disastrous consequences we may already be facing. Think ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

By Warren Cariou

In this good-natured, easygoing memoir, thirtysomething writer Warren Cariou looks back on his rural boyhood in northern Saskatchewan and attempts to capture the ineffable magic of a childhood home. Cariou’s account is leavened by charming ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

Jessica’s X-ray

If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella

Princesses Are Not Quitters!

★ The Jade Necklace

Pavilion

Killing Things

Canada Gold: Men & Women Hockey Champions

Dark Paths, Cold Trails: A Mountie’s Quest to Link Serial Killers to Their Victims

2030: Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

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