Dear Gabriel English, You don't know me, but I'm usually quite obsessive about reading things in the proper order, so I'm surprised that I read This All Happened a couple of years ago, having somehow missed the fact that you are also at the heart of this collection
There are a number of ways in which one can get to know Emily Carr. Groundwood Books - House of Anansi, 2003 First, for the bookish, via her own writing. Klee Wick (1941), The Book of Small (1942), The House of All Sorts (1944), and, published posthumously, Growing Pains
When I was a girl, I had the same kind of advent calendar that Derek McCormack describes receiving every year from his mother, the flat ones made of cardstock, with winter scenes decorating them, little images behind each flap as you discovered them. No toys, no candies. House of
You haven’t heard from him much lately, I know. But once upon a time (well, this theme is all about storytelling, right?), Mr BIP was a strong presence in these lands. Some of you might remember when he won a cheerleading award for Dewey’s Read-a-Thon, though lately he’s been reading
Sometimes, you sense the match between you and a particular book immediately. Granta Books, 2012 (via House of Anansi) That's what happened with me and Sara Maitland's book. I still remember the pang of realization in discovering that it had not yet been published: the long wait for
