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Book Reviews in November 2002 Issue

Note from Editor
Editor's Note
by Olga Stein
Yann Martel is no longer just a promising young author. With Life of Pie, his second novel, he has earned himself this year's Man Booker Prize. He is only the third Canadian to win this prestigious award for literature written in English (Michael Ondaatje won for The English Patient in 1992, and Margaret Atwood for The Blind Assassin, in 2000)
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan

Knopf Canada
371 pages $34.95 Cloth
ISBN: 0676974554
Book Review
Undone by a Note
by Andy Lamey
When Cyril Connolly launched his famous literary magazine Horizon in 1939, it impressed the entire English literary worldùexcept Virginia Woolf. She ensured that posterity would record a significant dissenting note at the birth of Connolly's journal when she harrumphed in her diary, "Horizon out; small, trivial, dull. So I think from not reading it.
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Your Mouth is Lovely
by Nancy Richler

Knopf Canada
371 pages $34.95 Cloth
ISBN: 0002005220
Book Review
Rich and Varied Texture
by Michelle Ariss
Nancy Richler's Your Mouth is Lovely is a fine example of the type of writing that Rhea Tregebov called for more than a decade ago in "Some Notes on the Story of Esther." Published in the feminist anthology entitled Language in her EyeùWriting and Gender (1990), Tregebov's essay urges Jewish women writers to write "consciously," to tell their own stories and to let their writing grow to be "an assertion of our difference and a refutation of the otherness imposed upon us.
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold

Little, Brown
328 pages $29.95 cloth
ISBN: 0316666343
Book Review
Adolescent Afterlife
by Gordon Phinn
In the fall of 1999, when the film The Sixth Sense was so suddenly and hugely successful, National Post columnist Len Blum, in one of his weekly columns, sought to grasp the movie's remarkable word of mouth reputation. While thinking that it obviously connected with our innate sense of unworthiness and fear of failure, he felt its major magic was to "tap into our desire to commune with loved ones who have died, to tell them we love them, to resolve things left unresolved.
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Guillaume Vigneault Translated by Susan Ouriou
by Necessary Betrayals

Douglas & McIntyre
188 pages $22.95 paper
ISBN: 1550549561
Book Review
Revered Genre Subtly Subverted
by Jack Illingworth
Necessary Betrayals is the English-language debut of Montrealer Guillaume Vigneault. It is a translation of Vigneault's second novel, Chercher le vent, a refreshingly original road novel that is blessed with exceptional emotional intelligence but occasionally marred by moments of excessive melodrama. Vigneault's narrator is Jacques "Jack" Dubois, a professional photographer and former bush pilot who is just entering middle age.
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Twelve
by Nick McDonell

Publishers Group West
244 pages $37.95 cloth
ISBN: 0802117171
Book Review
Wealth, Ennui, Slaughter
by Matt Sturrock
What immediately strikes the reader upon picking up Nick McDonell's first novel, Twelve, is that the publisher was able to wrangle a cover blurb from reclusive gonzo giant Hunter S. Thompson. That Dr. Thompson postponed his own important workùthat of ingesting LSD and firing large calibre tracer bullets at the empty Jim Beam bottles lining his fenceùin order to read McDonell's book and then dictate a message to a courageous assistant is in itself impressive.
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Koba The Dread: Laughter and The Twenty Million
by Martin Amis

Knopf
306 pages $36.95 cloth
ISBN: 0676975178
Book Review
A Century of Sunsets
by T. F. Rigelhof
Two men meet on a Moscow street corner in 1951. Ivan asks, "Comrade, how are you?" Igor answers, "Better than tomorrow." If you don't get the joke, you have good reason to read Martin Amis's Koba the Dread. If you have no idea that telling such a joke killed (literallyùthe secret police were bleakly humourless) in Russia in 1951, you have even better reasons for reading this book.
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Canada, Landscape of Dreams
by Roberta Bondar

Douglas & McIntyre
110 pages $29.95 cloth
ISBN: 1550549588
Book Review
Gift Books û Editor's Pick. Photography
by Olga Stein
Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman astronaut to fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery. She is a neurologist, a scientist and pilot, and with this book she proves she's an excellent photographer. She captures scene after breath-taking scene in this book about the natural beauty of Canada. Facing each full-page photo there's a quote from a recognized artist, writer, musician or otherwise distinguished person, but the quotes are completely upstaged by the magnificent images.
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Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J. L. Cohen
by Laurel Sefton MacDowell

University of Toronto Press
385 pages $60 cloth
ISBN: 0802035132
Book Review
Trusted LawyerùJ.L.Cohen
by John Peppall
Pic J. L. Cohen J. L. Cohen was one of the most prominent labour lawyers in Canada before the present regime of collective bargaining was established in the middle of the last century. He played an important role in establishing that regime, working with both the Ontario and Dominion governments. He also acted for a number of Communists in trouble with the law.
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The Navigator of New York
by Wayne Johnston's

Knopf
486 pages $37 cloth
ISBN: 0676975321
Book Review
Cook and Son: Race to a Shifting Destination
by Linda Morra
Nominated for this year's Giller Prize, Wayne Johnston's finely wrought sixth novel, The Navigator of New York, is loosely based on the historical polar expeditions of Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Commander Robert Peary, and the controversy in the early twentieth century that arose over their competing claims to have been the first to reach the North Pole. Yet, at a crucial moment in the novel, Dr.
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Rapture
by Susan Minot

Knopf
116 pages $27 cloth
ISBN: 0375413278
Book Review
Phallus Seize
by Michael Greenstein
The central characters in Susan Minot's Rapture, Benjamin Young and his lover Kay Bailey, are engaged in the act of fellatio throughout the course of this intelligently paced novel. Centrifugal and centripetal forces are at work (and play) between the minds and erogenous zones of these lovers, and the narrative dialogue that ensues creates a comforting distance between partners and readers.
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North In The World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen
by Translated and edited by Roger Greenwald

University of Chicago Press
330 pages $54.95 cloth
ISBN: 0226390357
Book Review
Rolf Jacobsen Provides Safe Passage Beyond
by Erling Friis-Baastad
Scandinavian poetry has only slowly come to be appreciated in Canada; that's probably because of a former dearth of good and readily available translations. Certainly Canadians must empathize with the Scandinavian experience, considering how much they have in common: climate and terrain, small population and large, even threatening, neighbors. Their prehistoric legends include ravens and wolves, bears and northern lights
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The Eye in the Thicket
by Edited by Sean Virgo

Thistledown
280 pages $19.95 paper
ISBN: 1894345312
Book Review
Why the Glass Wall is There
by Judith M. Newman
Twenty-five years ago Frank Smith wrote an article which appeared in the Harvard, Educational Review "Making Sense of Readingùand of Reading Instruction" in which he argued children must have two fundamental insights before they can learn to read: 1. print is meaningful, and 2. written language is different from speech.
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Book Review
Theatre by Keith Garebian
by Keith Garebian
King Lear by William Shakespeare Directed by Jonathan Miller The Festival Theatre, Stratford, August 20-November 6, 2002 "Jonathan Miller has elected to stage the tragedy on an empty stage
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Moosehead Anthology #8: The Matrix Interviews
by Edited by R.E.N. Allen and Angela Carr

DC books
182 pages $14.95 paper
ISBN: 0919688861
Book Review
Insight-Full Anthology
by Alex Boyd
The Moosehead Anthology and Matrix magazineùboth the result of "one of the periodic flourishings of English language literary culture in Quebec"ùcome together in Moosehead Anthology num 8: The Matrix Interviews, a collection of sixteen interviews edited by R.E.N. Allen and Angela Carr. The style of the book is unpretentious, using a patchwork of portraits as its cover.
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Arms
by Madeline Sonik

Nightwood Editions
177 pages $24.07 paper
ISBN: 088971181X
The Originals
by L. E. Vollick

DC Books
260 pages $22.03
ISBN: 0919688497
The Khaki Angel
by Danny Evanishen

Ethnic Enterprises
141 pages $11.95
ISBN: 0968159680
Swimming in the Ocean
by Catherine Jenkins

Insomniac Press
161 pages $19.95
ISBN: 1894663179
Falling backwards
by James Eke

Ekstasis Editions
210 pages $19.95
ISBN: 1896860982
Book Review
First Novels by W.P Kinsella
by W. P. Kinsella
The Khaki Angel, by Dave Williams (Ethnic Enterprises, 141 pages, ISBN: 0968159680), is a small novel from an unknown press that does everything wrong but still manages to tell an entertaining, suspenseful story because the author instinctively understands the basic tenet of all novel writing: a likable character strives against great odds to achieve a worthwhile goal.
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The Trade Mission
by Andrew Pyper

HarperFlamingo
293 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0002005085
DreadfulWater Shows Up
by Hartley GoodWeather

Harper Flamingo Canada
234 pages $32 cloth
ISBN: 0002005107
That Sleep Of Death
by Richard King

Dundurn
304 pages $11.99 paper
ISBN: 0888822294
Death on the Rocks
by Eric Wright

Dundurn
271 pages $19.99 paper
ISBN: 1550023810
Haudenosaunnee
by Don Atkinson

Trafford
232 pages $26.74 paper
ISBN: 1552126811
The Holy
by Daniel Quinn

Context Books
419 pages $24 paper
ISBN: 189395630X
Heads You Lose
by Martin S. Cohen

Ekstasis Noir
314 pages $19.95 paper
ISBN: 1896860931
Book Review
Mysteries and Thrillers
by Robert Allen Papinchak
Amateur detective Sam Wiseman seems to have the perfect day job for investigative talents in Richard King's engaging first novel, That Sleep Of Death (Dundurn, 304 pages, $11.99, paper, ISBN: 0888822294). Sam sells books in the vicinity of McGill University. A good bookseller appears to have the same skills as a good detectiveù "clever questioning, an ability to absorb and retain details about lots of different books, intuition, and sometimes inspired guesswork.
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The Illustrated History of British Columbia
by Terry Reksten

Douglas & McIntyre
280 pages $60 cloth
ISBN: 155054859x
Book Review
Unsustainable Growth in Orbit
by Patrick R. Burger
One of the things that immediately strikes the reader of Schroeder's second science fiction novel, Permanence, is its classic science fiction style. Classic because it is reminiscent of 50s SF when exciting ideas were carried by strong storytelling that eschewed stylistic adornment.
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Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New & Selected
by Diane Schoemperlen

HarperFlamingo
310 pages $29.95 cloth
ISBN: 0002005182
Book Review
Your Red Plaid Shirt
by K. Gordon Neufeld
"If a story is not to be about love, then I think it must be about fear." These are the opening words of "The Look of the Lightning, the Sound of the Birds", one of 21 stories in Diane Shoemperlen's meaty new collection. Indeed, many of this author's stories are about love, but fear and insecurity are rarely absent, though masked by a dry and supple wit.
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The Summer of My Greek Taverna
by Tom Stone

Simon & Shuster
250 pages $36.5 cloth
ISBN: 0743205413
Book Review
Hellenic Beguilement (Or A Jest of the Gods)
by David Solway
What struck me most forcefully about the island of Patmos when I revisited last summer was not the towering Monastery of St. John or the famous apocalyptic grotto (where the Book of Revelations was not written) or the sprawling waterfront village with its liveliness and colour or the wide sweep of its many inviting beaches, but the character of its inhabitants.
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The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton

Penguin
256 pages $32.99 cloth
ISBN: 0241140102
Book Review
The Art of Complaining about Travel
by Jason Brown
I was once so impressed and heartened by a small piece of Alain de Botton's writing, in which John Ruskin and Goethe were invoked to help him weather a breakup, that I clipped it and tucked it into my desk drawer for a rainy day. What worked so refreshingly well was the juxtaposing of the lonely and drab details of an acute personal crisis with an epiphany Ruskin had while taking shelter from a thunderstorm in the woods.
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A Life in Pictures
by Glenn Gould

Doubleday
192 pages $50 cloth
ISBN: 0385659032
Book Review
Gift Books û Editor's Pick. Music/Biography
by Olga Stein
Glenn Gould was born in Toronto, on September 25, 1932 to parents Bert and Florence Gould. His musical talents were noticed at an early age, and his mother began to teach him when he turned three. Gould studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music from 1942-6. Tim Page writes, in his Introduction to this delightful and touching collection of photos that Gould's professional career began in 1945, when "he played Bach, Mendelssohn and Dupuis on the organ in Toronto's Eaton Auditorium.
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Facsimiles of Time: Essays on Poetry and Translation
by Eric Ormsby

The Porcupine's Quill
255 pages $22.95 paper
ISBN: 0889842264
Book Review
Polished Erudition Without Airs
by Christopher Wiseman
Eric Ormsby is best known for his carefully crafted and sophisticated poetry, the most recent collection of which, Araby, appeared in 2001. However, he has long had a high reputation, especially in the United States, for his graceful, shrewd and wide-ranging reviews, most of which have distinguished the pages of the consistently top-quality journal The New Criterion.
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Short Haul Engine
by Karen Solie

Brick Books
83 pages $18.95 paper
ISBN: 1894078179
Book Review
Artfully Driven Poetics
by Patrick Watson
The intriguing Starnino/Tisserand arguments over Christian B÷k's Eunoia (Books in Canada, Sept 2002) reminded me that this clever but vacuous stunt had actually won the Griffin prize for poetry. Regrettably B÷k displaced at least one contender whose words evoke experience, feelings, literary echoes, and gusts of meaning and light: Karen Solie's Short Haul Engine.
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Darkness and Silence
by Tim Bowling

Nightwood Editions
78 pages $22.93 paper
ISBN: 0889711755
Downriver Drift
by Tim Bowling

Harbour Publishing
254 pages $21.12 paper
ISBN: 1550172204
Book Review
A River and Surrounding Life
by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
Pic Tim Bowling As a poet, Tim Bowling has undeniable gifts: lyric strength, directness, musicality, and a confident sense of gesture. He has an inclination towards too-useful archetypes (strong, silent fathers; the mystery of feminine wisdom), but can usually keep that in check. In his most recent collection, Darkness and Silence, I hear the influence of Yeats, more than anyone. Not mystical, spirit-tapping Yeats, but the grave, grand, sombre poet who believes in simplicity
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Book Review
A Violence From Within: Wallace Stevens and the Poet's Mission
by Kenneth Sherman
In the spring of 1941ùamidst grim news issuing from the European theatre of warùWallace Stevens delivered a lecture at Princeton University called "The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words" in which he made an elegant and passionate attempt to deal with poetry's relationship to reality. How, Stevens asked his audience, ought poetry and art in general to deal with the onslaught of extreme events? It is a question that was on my mind one year ago as I watched the World Trade Center crumble.
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Iris Murdoch: A Life
by Peter J. Conradi

W. W. Norton & Company
512 pages $51 cloth
ISBN: 0393048756
Book Review
Iris Murdoch: Her Life and Thought
by Sheila Mason
Influential women philosophers are as rare as hen's teeth. Or used to be. Things are changing now, in part because of Iris Murdoch's writings on moral philosophy and because of her fascination with the inner struggles with good and evil of reflective people, a recurring theme of her twenty six novels.
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A Hero of our Own, The Story of Varian Fry
by Sheila Isenberg

Random House
350 pages $39.95 cloth
ISBN: 0375502211
Book Review
The Varian Fry Story
by Sharon Abron Drache
Historical biography about individuals who have penned their own memoirs, and who are professional writers themselves is a challenge, especially so when the subject is Varian Fry (1907-1967), an unsung World War II hero. Biographer Shirley Isenberg might have had a reasonably straightforward task had Fry not decided to substantiate his antifascism writings by visiting Berlin in the summer of 1935, where he witnessed firsthand Nazi stormtroopers beating Jews in the streets.
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The Halifax Explosion & The Royal Canadian Navy: Inquiry & Intrigue
by John Griffith Armstrong

UBC Press
248 pages $39.95 cloth
ISBN: 077480890X
Book Review
Lessons From An Old Disaster
by Malcolm MacLeod
The Halifax explosion of December 1917 made a huge hole in the history of families and community at the East coast capital. Eighteen hundred died. Approaching so calamitous a crater, it is not surprising that writers have found it difficult to trace more than a portion of its circumference. Eighty-five years later, we are still waiting for an account that is thoroughly comprehensive, reliable and definitive.
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Book Review
Letter From London by Marius K. Lunar
by Marius Kociejowski
Lunar As I turned the corner of the street a couple of nights ago I had a big surprise. The full moon was neatly suspended from the hook of a giant crane. I have heard since that this was the brightest it has been since records began and certainly, had I owned a pair, I might have put on sunglasses. My sublunary source, a friend of ours called Annie, is a midwife and she can testify that at the hospital where she works there was all manner of heightened nocturnal activity.
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Fetish
by Tara Moss

HarperCollins
306 pages $29.95 cloth
ISBN: 0002005190
Book Review
Killer Fetishist
by Cindy MacKenzie
I was tipped off about Tara Moss, a new Canadian author, by a bookseller in North Vancouver as someone I had to readùsomeone whose work was 'over the top.' As soon as I read the book and started researching the author, I realized what he meant. Born and raised in Victoria, B. C., Moss is a top international model who now resides in Australia.
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Rogue's Wedding
by Terry Griggs

Random House
292 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0679311440
Book Review
Wedding Night Jitters
by Kathryn Kuitenbrower
Rogue's Wedding is preposterous. On purpose. Griffith Smolders, chased by a ball of lightning in his hotel room on the night of his wedding, suspects an omen and takes off to save his life from the beautiful and forthright Avice Drinkwater, who is naked and waiting in the next room. The setting is London, 1898. Grif heads north on an unlikely odyssey in an attempt to escape his fate.
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Why Orwell Matters
by Christopher Hitchens

Basic Books
211 pages $37.95 cloth
ISBN: 0465030491
Book Review
Why Hitchens Matters
by Shaun Smith
Call me a pessimist, but I once hurled a copy of Wallace Stegner's novel Crossing to Safety across a room because I simply could not believe the good fortune of its characters. A maxim when writing fiction: readers will readily accept events that spell disaster for characters, but will question anything that turns events to their favour.
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The Firefly Visual Dictionary
by Jean-Claude Corbeil, Ariane Archambault

960 pages $75 cloth
ISBN: 1552975851
Book Review
Gift Books û Editor's Pick. General Knowledge
It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The truth of the statement is amply evident in the pages of the Firefly Visual Dictionary. The book is itself beyond verbal description. It's absolutely stunning, with 6,000 color images depicting entire disciplines and what falls within.
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Tom Thomson Edited by Dennis Reid and Charles C. Hill
Douglas & McIntyre
386 pages $65 cloth
ISBN: 1550548980
Book Review
Gift Books û Editor's Pick. Art/History
by Olga Stein
A full review of this book will be appearing in the December issue, so I won't go on at length here. Suffice it to say that this is a handsome, coffee-table-sized book with superb color reproductions of Thomson's best known and admired work. The paintings capture Canada's northern landscape in a style that was Thomson's own but that also coalesced around a vision, a goalùshared by close associates Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Arthur Lismer, A.Y.
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Letters to Editor
Letters to the Editor
Solway The Sad Balladeer: An Open Letter to the (Unofficial) Laureate of 'This Sucks' In his usual high but heavy-handed style, David Solway once again decries the state of current Canadian poetry in his recent article (Wilted Laurels [or, A Sad Ballade to the Poets Inglorious. BiC September 2002)]. This time, however, he's crafted a variation on a theme: blast the idea of a poet laureateship on the grounds that Canadian poetry is bereft of literary merit.
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Up Front
Amazon.ca/Books in Canada Bestsellers Lists
* Stats based on period from September 17 to October 15 Top 50 Bestselling Fiction 1 Wayne Johnston, The Navigator of New York (Knopf Canada, Hardcover) 2 Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown, Hardcover) 3 Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters (McClelland & Stewart, Hardcover) 4 Maeve Binchy, Quentins (McArthur, Paperback) 5 Richard B.
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Yo Baby!
by Rosalyn Schwartz

Annick Press
32 pages $5.95 paper
ISBN: 155037754X
We'll all go flying Illustrated by Kim LaFave
by Maggee Spicer,Richard Thompson

Fitzhenry & Whiteside
32 pages $19.95 cloth
ISBN: 1550416987
Priscilla's Paw de Deux Illustrated by Linda Hendry
by Sharon Jennings

Fitzhenry & Whiteside
32 pages $18.95 cloth
ISBN: 1550417185
Circus Play Illustrated by Joanne Fitzgerald
by Anne Laurel Carter

Orca Book Publishers
32 pages $19.95 cloth
ISBN: 1551432250
Children's Books
Children's Books
by Mary Anne Cree
Priscilla the rat from Sharon Jennin's Priscilla and Rosy is back and young readers (and some not so young) will delight in her latest adventure. Priscilla is a rat who must dance, but her tiny house does not give her the space she needs to express herself. While searching for a new home with more space for pirouetting, she and her best pal Rosy stumble into Madame Genevieve's Dance Studio
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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
by Martha Brooks

Douglas & McIntyre $12.95 paper
ISBN: 0888994761
Children's Books
Children's Books
by Jeffrey Canton
With every novel, Martha Brooks pushes the boundaries of Young Adult fiction a little bit harder, a little bit further. She does it ever so quietlyùperhaps hoping that we'll get so embroiled in the lives of her characters that we won't notice what's different about her approach this time or where it is that she's taking us.
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A Day with Nellie
by Marthe Jocelyn

Tundra Books
32 pages $19.99 cloth
ISBN: 0887766005
Children's Books
Children's Books
by Theo Heras
Three new books for the very young employ patterning to encourage participation. In size, shape and illustrative media the books are very different. Yo Baby! is square and pencil crayon-pastel-toned. A Day with Nellie is a tall and bright collage. We'll all go flying is long and vividly coloured. All three convey the curiosity and exuberance and wonderment that is part of the preschoolers' world view. A Day with Nellie is exactly that; the story follows Nellie through the day.
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The Fire: An Ethiopian Folk Tale Illustrated by Fabricio VandenBroeck
by Heinz Janisch

Groundwood Books
24 pages $15.95 cloth
ISBN: 0888994508
As Long as the Rivers Flow Illustrated by Heather D. Holmlund
by Larry Loyie, Constance Brissenden

Groundwood Books
40 pages $18.95 cloth
ISBN: 0888994737
Himalaya
by Tenzing Norbu Lama

Groundwood Books
36 pages $16.95 cloth
ISBN: 088899480X
A Brave Soldier
by Nicolas Debon

Groundwood Books
32 pages $15.95 cloth
ISBN: 0888994818
Children's Books
Children's Books
by Deborah Wandal
As there are a few common themes woven through these four books, children (ages 6 - 11) might enjoy reading some of these together. As Long as the Rivers Flow, and Himalaya both offer fascinating information about the economies of two very different rural existences, and the ways that survival strategies become enriched by culture, ritual, and many different types of knowledge.
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Children's Books
Children's Books
by Jeffrey Canton
This month, Books in Canada salutes all the authors, illustrators and storytellers who participated in the largest cross-country book tour of its kind in celebration of Canadian children's books, the 26th annual TDCanadian Children's Book Week. From November 2nd through 9th, they journey into the lives of their young fans from coast-to-coast.
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Sparks Illustrations by Tony Persiani
by Graham McNamee

Random House
119 pages $23.95 cloth
ISBN: 0385729774
A Company of Fools
by Deborah Ellis

Fitzhenry & Whiteside
191 pages $19.95 cloth
ISBN: 1550417193
Children's Books
Children's Books
by Theo Heras
How many kids have spent time at the edge of a crowd looking in? In Sparks by Graham McNamee and A Company of Fools by Deborah Ellis, two young protagonists are thrown from the comfortable sidelines into very different but equally challenging social situations. In McNamee's novel, Todd Foster never knows if his ideas are stupid unless somebody else tells him. He is in a regular grade 5 class after spending the previous year in Special Needs.
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The Lightkeeper's Daughter
by Iain Lawrence

Delacorte Press
250 pages $25.95 cloth
ISBN: 0385729251
Children's Books
Children's Books
by Gillian Chan
Iain Lawrence is a writer who is as versatile as he is talented. In his previous novels, he has covered such diverse subjects as albinism and traveling freak shows, traditional sea faring yarns, and the horrors of the First World War. His latest novel, The Lightkeeper's Daughter, works on a much smaller canvas, but is no less intense. Lizzie Island is a small island off the coast of British Columbia.
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