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Current Issue: #214 (Autumn 2012)

Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.

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191 results for Children's Literature

  • Not Just for Children by Dee Horne. #214 (Autumn 2012): 163 – 164. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Fox on the Ice / Maageesees Maskwameek Kaapit by Brian Deines [Illustrator] and Tomson Highway [Author]
    Tales from the Tundra: A Collection of Inuit Stories by Anthony Brennan [Illustrator], Louise Flaherty [Editor], and Ibi Kaslik [Author]
    The Caribou Feed Our Soul by Pete Enzoe [Author], Tessa Macintosh [Illustrator], and Mindy Willett [Author]
  • Beyond Domesticity by Suzanne James. #214 (Autumn 2012): 176 – 177. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock [Author]
    Out of the Box by Michell Mulder [Author]
    Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent [Author]
  • Family Secrets by Gisèle M. Baxter. #214 (Autumn 2012): 183 – 184. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Miracleville by Monique Polak [Author]
    Every Time We Say Goodbye by Jamie Zeppa [Author]
  • A Young Woman Hungers by Jan Lermitte. #214 (Autumn 2012): 152 – 153. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Hunger Journeys by Maggie de Vries [Author]
  • Taking Control by Suzanne James. #213 (Summer 2012) - New Work on Early Canadian Literature: 162 – 163. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Living Outside the Lines by Lesley Choyce [Author]
    Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom by Susan Nielson [Author]
  • Animal Book Mix by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #212 (Spring 2012) - General Issue: 124 – 125. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Sea Wolves by Nicholas Read [Author]
    Uumajut: Learn About Arctic Wildlife! by Simon Awa [Author], Neil Christopher [Editor], Flaherty Louise [Editor], Stephanie McDonald [Author], Leah Otak [Translator], Caron Romi [Translator], and Anna Ziegler [Author]
    Cursed! by Maureen Bush [Author]
    The Last Loon by Rebecca Upjohn [Author]
  • Not Quite Sunnybrook Farm by Hilary Turner. #212 (Spring 2012) - General Issue: 149 – 150. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Baby Project by Sarah Ellis [Author]
    The Last Wild Place by Rosa Jordan [Author]
    Call Me Aram by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch [Author]
  • Three Brats, One Hero by Hilary Turner. #209 (Summer 2011) - Spectres of Modernism: 141 – 142. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Lulu's Piano Lesson by Arlene Alda [Author]
    All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine by Monica Kulling [Author]
    A Night on the Town by Caroline Merola [Author]
    Curtain Up! by Dirk McLean [Author]
  • Historic Heroines by Rachelle Delaney. #209 (Summer 2011) - Spectres of Modernism: 165 – 166. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Home Free by Kim Thúy [Author]
    Folly by Marthe Jocelyn [Author]
  • Sundry Tundra Fun by Hilary Turner. #208 (Spring 2011) - Prison Writing: 155 – 156. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Bird Child by Nan Forler [Author]
    Sail Away with Me by Jane Collins-Philippe [Author]
    Out of Slavery: The Journey to Amazing Grace by Linda Granfield [Author]
    What Came First? by Sandro Natalini [Author]
  • Finding Hope, Finding Home by Sarika P. Bose. #208 (Spring 2011) - Prison Writing: 178 – 180. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Walking Backward by Catherine Austen [Author]
    After Peaches by Michelle Mulder [Author]
    The Gnome's Eye by Anna Kerz [Author]
    Shapeshifter by Holly Bennett [Author]
  • Growing Pains by Gisèle M. Baxter. #207 (Winter 2010) - Mordecai Richler: 132 – 133. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    We Want You to Know: Kids Talk about Bullying by Deborah Ellis [Author]
    i.d.: Stuff That Happens to Define Us by Peter Mitchell [Author] and Kate Scowen [Author]
  • Brain Food for Youth by M. Sean Saunders. #206 (Autumn 2010): 139. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones [Author]
    Watching Jimmy by Nancy Hartry [Author]
  • Small Transformations by Hilary Turner. #206 (Autumn 2010): 197 – 199. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Orphan Boy by Tolowa M. Mollel [Author]
    A Wizard in Love by Mireille Levert [Author]
    Pounce De Leon by Tim Wynne-Jones [Author]
  • Understanding Our Worlds and Ourselves by Sarika P. Bose. #205 (Summer 2010) - Queerly Canadian: 129 – 130. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by Jane Barclay [Author] and Renné Benoit [Illustrator]
    The Malagawatch Mice and the Cat Who Discovered America by Caroline Stellings [Author]
    Spirits, Fairies, and Merpeople: Native Stories of Other Worlds by C.J. Taylor [Author]
    Clever Rachel by Cindy Revell [Illustrator] and Debby Waldman [Author]
  • Childhood's Journey by Gisèle M. Baxter. #205 (Summer 2010) - Queerly Canadian: 175 – 176. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Journey to Atlantis by Philip Roy [Author]
    The Blythes Are Quoted by Benjamin Lefebvre [Editor] and L. M. Montgomery [Author]
  • Pleasure: Plot or Plow? by Jodi Lundgren. #205 (Summer 2010) - Queerly Canadian: 168 – 169. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Bambina by Francesca Piredda [Author]
    Gravity by Leanne Lieberman [Author]
  • Reality is Nice, Too by Hilary Turner. #205 (Summer 2010) - Queerly Canadian: 165 – 166. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Day I Became a Canadian: A Citizenship Scrapbook by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet [Author] and Song Nan Zhang [Illustrator]
    Hurricane! by Celia Godkin [Author]
  • Imagination Generated Imagery by Sean Somers. #205 (Summer 2010) - Queerly Canadian: 158 – 159. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery by Elizabeth Epperly [Author]
    100 Years of Anne with an 'E': The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables by Holly Blackford [Editor]
  • Kids' Animal Books Moving by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #205 (Summer 2010) - Queerly Canadian: 172 – 173. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Shimmerdogs by Dianne Linden [Author]
    Dog Tracks by Ruby Slipperjack [Author]
    The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill MacLean [Author]
  • Teen Wives and Mothers by Elizabeth Galway. #203 (Winter 2009) - Home, Memory, Self: 154 – 155. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Lit Report by Sarah N. Harvey [Author]
    Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka [Author]
  • The School of Life by Gisèle M. Baxter. #203 (Winter 2009) - Home, Memory, Self: 133 – 134. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Shepherd's Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter [Author]
    The Saver by Edeet Ravel [Author]
    Skim by Mariko Tamaki [Author] and Jillian Tamaki [Illustrator]
  • Fledglings in Flight by Hilary Turner. #202 (Autumn 2009) - Sport and the Athletic Body: 110 – 111. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Libertad by Alma Fullerton [Author]
    Good-bye Marianne by Kathryn E. Shoemaker [Illustrator] and Irene N. Watts [Author]
  • Outside the Ordinary by Jodi Lundgren. #202 (Autumn 2009) - Sport and the Athletic Body: 118 – 119. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Things Go Flying by Shari Lapeña [Author]
    Stunt by Claudia Day [Author]
    Twenty Miles by Cara Hedley [Author]
  • A Mixed Bag by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #202 (Autumn 2009) - Sport and the Athletic Body: 103 – 104. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Afrika by Colleen Craig [Author]
    Mr Karp's Last Glass by
    All-Season Edie by Annabel Lyon [Author]
    Skids by Cathleen With [Author]
  • YA First Person Narratives Uneven by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #200 (Spring 2009) - Strategic Nationalisms: 154 – 155. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath [Author]
    Would You by Marthe Jocelyn [Author]
  • 21th Century Fantasy by J. Kieran Kealy. #200 (Spring 2009) - Strategic Nationalisms: 158 – 159. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Beyond Window-Dressing?: Canadian Children's Fantasy at the Millennium by K.V. Johansen [Author]
  • No Escape from the Past by Suzanne James. #200 (Spring 2009) - Strategic Nationalisms: 130 – 131. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature by Clare Bradford [Author]
  • There's No Place Like Home by Benjamin Lefebvre. #200 (Spring 2009) - Strategic Nationalisms: 184 – 185. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Home Words: Discources of Children's Literature in Canada by Mavis Reimer [Editor]
  • Trait d'union by Eric Paul Parent. #200 (Spring 2009) - Strategic Nationalisms: 139 – 140. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Le chant du Dire-Dire by Daniel Danis [Author]
    Assoiffés by Wajdi Mouawad [Author]
    Floes et D'Alaska (suite Nordique) by Sébastien Harrisson [Author]
    Le Long de la Principale by Steve Leplante [Author]
    Souliers de Sable by Suzanne Lebeau [Author]
  • More About Anne by Janice Fiamengo. #200 (Spring 2009) - Strategic Nationalisms: 149 – 150. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic by Irene Gammel [Author]
  • Pictures of Other Worlds by Karen Crossley. #198 (Autumn 2008) - Canada and Its Discontents: 165 – 166. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Once Upon a Full Moon by Elizabeth Quan [Author]
    Mee-An and the Magic Serpent by Baba Wagué Diakité [Author]
    Sky Blue Accident/Accidente celeste by Elisa Amado [Translator], Piet Grobler [Illustrator], and Jorge Lujàn [Author]
  • Adventures in Ontario by Rick Gooding. #198 (Autumn 2008) - Canada and Its Discontents: 173 – 174. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Into the Ravine by Richard Scrimger [Author]
    Death in Kingsport by
    When the Bough Breaks by Irene N. Watts [Author]
  • Children and Death by Hilary Turner. #198 (Autumn 2008) - Canada and Its Discontents: 115 – 116. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Mr. Gauguin's Heart by Isabelle Arsenault [Illustrator], Marie-Danielle Croteau [Author], and Susan Ouriou [Translator]
    Marja's Skis by Jirina Marton [Illustrator] and Jean E. Pendziwol [Author]
    Light Foot / Pies Ligeros by Elisa Amado [Translator], Natalia Toledo [Author], and Francisco Toledo [Illustrator]
  • Nature Red in Tooth and Claw by Sarika P. Bose. #198 (Autumn 2008) - Canada and Its Discontents: 142 – 143. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Painted Circus: P.T. Vermin presents A Mesmerizing Menagerie of Trickery and Illusion Guaranteed to Beguile and Bamboozle the Beholder by Wallace Edwards [Author]
    Other Goose: Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Times by Barbara Wyn Klunder [Author]
    Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling through Inuit Art by Shelley Falconer [Author] and Shawna White [Author]
    Jack Pine by Christopher Patton [Author] and Cybèle Young [Illustrator]
  • Agency, Belonging, Citizenship: The ABCs of Nation-Building in Contemporary Canadian Texts for Adolescents by Benjamin Lefebvre. #198 (Autumn 2008) - Canada and Its Discontents: 91 – 101. Article.
  • Persistent and Challenging Enigmas by Jennifer Scott. #197 (Summer 2008) - Predators and Gardens: 167 – 169. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie [Author] and Michael Peterman [Editor]
    Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery [Author], Mary Rubio [Editor], and Elizabeth Waterston [Editor]
  • Children Alone by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #196 (Spring 2008) - Diasporic Women's Writing: 144 – 145. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Pure Spring by Brian Doyle [Author]
    The Royal Woods by Matt Duggan [Author]
  • Empowering the Heroine by Kristen Guest. #196 (Spring 2008) - Diasporic Women's Writing: 170 – 171. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Burning Time by Carol Matas [Author]
    Orphan Ahwak by Raquel Rivera [Author]
    Prisoners Under Glass by R. Patrick [Author]
  • Nature, Wild and Tamed by Hilary Turner. #195 (Winter 2007) - Context(e)s: 173 – 174. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists by Jirina Morton [Illustrator] and Raquel Rivera [Author]
    The Summer of Marco Polo by Kasia Charko [Illustrator] and Lynn Manuel [Author]
    In My Backyard by Ron Broda [Illustrator] and Margriet Ruurs [Author]

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