Once anointed the walking poet, philosopher of Vancouver, and catching stride with "False Creek", her eighth collection, Jane Munro is a Griffin Poetry Prize winner and the recent author of Open Every Window: A Memoir. She has taught... Read More
Linda P.J. Lipsen’s "Pressed Plants" is a hobbyist’s botany book marked by deep wisdom. The book gives plant lovers the information they need to collect, press, and organize their own plant specimens. The sequential chapters document... Read More
Stuck in high school on the moon, three teenagers deal with a rival gang and dream of going to Earth in Space Trash: Volume 1. In 2091, people feared that Earth would soon be unable to support life, and terraforming colonies were... Read More
The chaputs style of dugout canoe has great cultural importance to Canada’s Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations. Joe Martin, a master of the craft with more than sixty such canoes to his name, teams up with museum curator Alan Hoover to... Read More
James Mayhew’s "Once Upon a Tune" is a beautiful collection of multicultural folk tales. Recouching traditional tales for young audiences, this illustrated book includes entries like “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (of Fantasia... Read More
In the graphic novel "The Lions of Leningrad", Russian adolescents fight to survive German attacks, starvation, and Joseph Stalin’s iron-fisted rule. Following a gunshot at a Leningrad concert in 1962, a man is arrested. He recounts... Read More
If the ability to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time and still function is a sign of intellect, what are we to make of Raymond Antrobus’s depth of awareness, originality, and empathy—all turned inside out and refracted into... Read More
With the knowledge that great stories last for generations, Danielle Higley’s entertaining "The Stories Behind the Stories" shares the histories behind twenty-nine iconic children’s books, beginning with the unclear origins of the... Read More