Fall 2004

Skinny

It was probably inevitable. Write a debut novel called Skinny, in which you do an almost frighteningly good ...

By Ian McGillis

Look for Me

For Jews, few subjects are more explosive than the Israeli settlements in Palestine. Family dinners ignite when ...

By Claire Holden Rothman

Maria Chapdelaine

From Tundra Books comes a picture-book adaptation of Maria Chapdelaine, the famous novel that Louis Hémon ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Race Without Rules

Beginning writers are often told to “write what they know.” If Grant had followed this maxim, we would have missed ...

By Margaret Goldik

As Long As There Are Whales

A noted biologist and educator with a passion for whales, and a well-known wildlife artist who counts whales among ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Polar Skater

Lobster Press has brought out a picture book infused with Scandinavian flavour. In Polar Skater, a young ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

The Watch Boys and Other Stories

Palmer, a professor at Concordia University, has compiled some travel memoirs, short stories and fragments of a ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Madonna of the St. Denis Bar-BQ

(Reviewed with Travelling Light)In Canada, when we speak of “two solitudes,” we generally think of our ...

By Joan Eyolfson Cadham

Amazing Things Animals Do

In Amazing Things Animals Do, Marilyn Baillie shares her passion for nature with primary-school children. ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte