October 2009
"Once there was a tiny girl with wobbly arms and legs, all skin and bones like a newly hatched bird," begins this ...
October 2009
In Jane Barclay's touching picture book, Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion, a boy sits on his ...
October 2009
Part graphic novel, part children's picture book, Lesley Johnson's The Banana Story of Agony is a ...
October 2009
Far From Home by Frieda Wishinsky is the eleventh book in the Canadian Flyer Adventures series, ...
October 2009
In Monique Polak's Junkyard Dog, Justin's having a rough time: his mom walked out on him and his unemployed ...
October 2009
Twelve-year-old Josh has a great summer ahead of him, with marathon Civilization sessions, soccer games, ...
October 2009
Anyone fond of animals will want to read Penned, a remarkably wide-ranging collection of poems about zoos. ...
October 2009
Rutting Season is essentially three chapbooks filled out with a conversation by the poets. The shop talk ...
October 2009
Brian Campbell's inspiration is Charles Baudelaire: Passenger Flight begins with a quotation from the ...
October 2009
Jason Guriel draws the title of his book from a celebrated poem by William Carlos Williams, who lamented the human ...
October 2009
As his readers would expect, Carmine Starnino's new book is well crafted and imaginative. A few poems don't carry ...

October 2009
St-Laurent Boulevard's Salon b is a second-story café which overlooks a funeral home. It is strangely fitting that ...