On occasion, I have to wonder if perhaps my grandmother and great-aunts didn't have a point. How many times did they instruct me that I should not, so often, have my nose in a book. Because sometimes I really wonder how I missed something huge. Like, for instance, Robert Lepage's
If this were the first Munro story that you read, by the time you reached the end of "1. Anonymous Letters", you might be shaking your head, for that segment seems to just stop. If you've been reading Munro stories for awhile, however, you'll be settling your chin in your
You could read this book because it has won a tonne of awards. (It won the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature (Text), the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award.) You could read it because Paul Yee has a solid
When I was a girl, I heard Gordon Lightfoot's albums often enough that I knew the words to his songs as well as I knew the lyrics on my Sesame Street records. Once, my mom brought home a recording from the library: one of his ballads with an illustrated book
Perhaps Hélène is not a likely hero. She is "only eight years old, a bit florid in colour, with bluish veins on a body that weighed twenty-three kilos, holding back a mind that was always trying to run off to faraway, pitiless realms". Oscar sounds like a more heroic name,
