For years, a set of loose photocopied pages were housed on my bookshelf with the M's. (Do you do this, too?) Then, they were tucked inside my copy of Lisa Moore's Alligator: her short story "Azalea", which first appeared in the March/April 2002 issue of THIS Magazine. I was first drawn
"You don't know how to life your life anymore and you start drowning in it." House of Anansi, 2012 That's the thing about depression, Lynn Crosbie explains in an interview with Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio. She describes what happens when you really start looking at the world, with
Wondering who Sandra is, and why she's sharing her thoughts about these stories here? I briefly introduced her the other day, and she has read two other Anansi works, which she will be chatting about, before this month's end. Read on: it seems that this collection was, indeed, a wonder,
Nearly two weeks ago, author Susan Vande Griek and illustrator Karen Reczuch took home the $10,000 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction for Loon. This post's title comes from the jury's description of the book, and the cover alone, with its rich, tapestry-like image, declares that this bird
Pamela Porter's backlist landed all-of-a-piece on my TBR with I'll Be Watching. Yellow Moon, Apple Moon is aimed at the earliest readers. It provides a lovely transition-from-board-books option. [Next on my Pamela Porter list, if you're curious, arranged in order of readers' ages: Sky (prose, 8-12) and The Crazy Man (free verse,
