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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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34 results for Childhood

  • 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]
  • War's Children by Reece Steinberg. #206 (Autumn 2010): 120 – 121. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Régine Miller by Walter Buchignani [Author]
    Off to War: Voices of Soldiers' Children by Deborah Ellis [Author]
  • 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.
  • Remodeling An Old-Fashioned Girl: Troubling Girlhood in Anne-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees by Laura Robinson. #186 (Autumn 2005) - Women & the Politics of Memory: 30 – 45. Article.
  • Making Babies: Infants in Canadian Fiction by Sandra Sabatini. #184 (Spring 2005) - (Grace, Dolbec, Kirk, Dawson, Appleford): 184. Opinions & Notes.
  • Worthy of Serious Study by Judy Brown. #174 (Autumn 2002) - Travel: 183 – 185. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Canadian Children's Books: A Critical Guide to Authors and Illustrators by Raymond Jones [Author] and Jon Stott [Author]
    Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television by Neil Sutherland [Author]
    Children in English Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth Century Consensus by Neil Sutherland [Author]
  • Maritime Literature:: Place, Past, and Poetry by Jim Taylor. #172 (Spring 2002) - Auto / biography: 158 – 160. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Centre of the World at the Edge of the Continent by Carol Corbin [Editor] and Judith A. Rolls [Editor]
    The Last Best Place: Lost in the Heart of Nova Scotia by John DeMont [Author]
    Children's Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture: Essays on Childhood by Hilary Thompson [Editor]
  • No Bedtime Story by Judy Brown. #172 (Spring 2002) - Auto / biography: 204 – 205. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Breadwinner by Deborah Elllis [Author]
  • Lie of the Land by Marilyn Iwama. #138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993) - Past, Present, Future: 124 – 126. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Empress Has No Closure by Adeena Karasick [Author]
    The Work of Our Hands by Sharon H. Nelson [Author]
    White Lies for Mother by Liza Potvin [Author]
  • Journeying by Jo-Anne Elder. #138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993) - Past, Present, Future: 112 – 114. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Biggest Modern Woman of the World by Susan Swan [Author]
    The Child Hero in the Canadian Novel by Theresia Quigley [Author]
  • Lucy & John by Catherine Sheldrick Ross. #138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993) - Past, Present, Future: 153 – 155. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Fragrance of Sweet-grass: L. M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly [Author]
    The Borders of Nightmare: The Fiction of John Richardson by Michael Hurley [Author]
  • Claims of Loneliness by Jim Snyder. #138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993) - Past, Present, Future: 158 – 160. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Journey Prize Anthology by
    Things As They Are? by
  • Raw vs Clever by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993) - Past, Present, Future: 172 – 174. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Margin of Error by Leslie Choyce [Author]
    Wafer Thin by Elin Elgaard [Author]
    Lady Daisy by Dick King-Smith [Author]
    Exit Barney McGee by Claire Mackay [Author]
    The Magpie Summer by Elana Wolff [Author] and Judith Wright [Author]
  • Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #136 (Spring 1993) - Nature, Politics, Poetics: 170 – 172. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Wally Stutzgummer, Super Bad Dude by Martyn Godfrey [Author]
    MacDonald Hall Goes Hollywood by Gordon Korman [Author]
    Upside Down by Mary Jane Miller [Author]
    Sophie's Cat by Billi Rosen [Author]
    Letting Go by Mary Woodbury [Author]
  • Cold War by Gardar Baldvinsson. #135 (Winter 1992) - Transcreations: 157 – 158. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars [Author]
  • Texts & Subtexts by Carole Gerson. #135 (Winter 1992) - Transcreations: 165 – 166. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Taking Care of My Cold by Joan Buchanan [Author]
    The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling [Author]
    The Magic Paintbrush by Robin Muller [Author]
  • Child Reader by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #135 (Winter 1992) - Transcreations: 191 – 192. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Princesses Don't Wear Jeans by Brenda Bellingham [Author]
    Taking Sides by Sylvia Gunnery [Author]
    A Place for Margaret, Margaret in the Middle, Margaret on Her Way by Bernice Thurman Hunter [Author]
    Fast Times with Fred by Paul Kropp [Author]
    The Stepfather Game by Norah Mcclintock [Author]
  • Incorrigible Heroes by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #134 (Autumn 1992) - Letters & Other Connections: 161 – 162. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Bells on Finland Street by Lyn Cook [Author]
    Samantha's Secret Room by Lyn Cook [Author]
    Don’t Call Me Sugarbaby by Dorothy Joahn Harris [Author]
    Gordon Korman Collection by Gordon Korman [Author]
    Mr. Kneebone's New Digs by Ian Wallace [Author]
  • Close Calls by Michael Mason. #134 (Autumn 1992) - Letters & Other Connections: 173 – 174. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Daisy Circus by Rita Donovan [Author]
    Close Calls: short stories by Patricia Stone [Author]
  • Parents & Children by Jacqueline Bardolph. #129 (Summer 1991) - The Languages of Poetry: 169 – 170. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Paradise Café and other stories by Martha Brooks [Author]
    Forms of Captivity and Escape by J. J. Steinfeld [Author]
  • Truth & Lie by Barbara Pell. #127 (Winter 1990) - Background, Foreground: 155 – 156. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Western Kingdom: Part Two of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon [Author]
    Union Day: Part Three of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon [Author]
    Harvest: Part Four of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon [Author]
  • Good Care by Hilary Thompson. #122-123 (Autumn/Winter 1989) - The Long Poem / Remembering bp Nichol: 250 – 251. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    I Will Bring You Berries by Jean Mallison [Author]
    A Fine and Quiet Place by Nora Keeling [Author]
  • Dreams & Fires by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek. #122-123 (Autumn/Winter 1989) - The Long Poem / Remembering bp Nichol: 279 – 281. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Dreams of Zoo Animals by Valmai Howe [Author]
    Fires of the Kindred by Robin Skelton [Author]
  • Braces & Freckles by Lynn Kettler Penrod. #118 (Autumn 1988) - Contemporary Drama: 173 – 175. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Les Catastrophes de Rosalie by Ginette Anfousse [Author]
    La Patte dans le sac by Sylvie Desrosiers [Author] and Pierre Huet [Illustrator]
    Le Journal intime d'Ani Croche by Gérard Frischeteau [Illustrator] and Bertrand Gauthier [Author]
    Atterrissage forcé by Pierre Pratt [Illustrator] and Joceline Sanschagrin [Author]
  • Allure by Andrew Brooks. #117 (Summer 1988) - Translation: 160 – 162. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Falling Together by Lorne Daniel [Author]
    Standing On Our Own Two Feet by W. B. Robertson [Author]
    The Moving Light by Eugene McNamara [Author]
  • Different Dragons by Raymond Jones. #116 (Spring 1988) - Magic & Other Realisms: 167 – 168. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Different Dragons by Jean Little [Author]
    Plan B Is Total Panic by Martyn Godfrey [Author]
    The Curses of the Third Uncle by Paul Yee [Author]
  • Castles of Childhood by Margaret Belcher. #115 (Winter 1987) - Poets' Words: 208 – 209. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    A Forest for Zoe by David Lobdell [Translator] and Louise Maheux-Forcier [Author]
  • Relations & Families by George Woodcock. #113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987) - Literature & the Visual Arts: 235 – 239. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Time of Their Lives by Stuart Foxman [Author] and John Nihmey [Author]
    The Tender Passion by Peter Gay [Author]
    Images of Childhood by Anita Schorsch [Author]
    Home: A Short History of and Idea by Witold Rybczynski [Author]
  • Deux générations by Jacqueline Viswanathan. #110 (Autumn 1986) - Literature & Ideology: 148 – 150. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Une enfance a l'eau bénite by Denise Bombardier [Author]
    La note de passage by François Gravel [Author]
  • Triviality & Magic by Laurie Ricou. #107 (Winter 1985) - The Times Between: 132 – 134. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    When the Grass was Taller: Autobiography and the Experience of Childhood by Richard N. Coe [Author]
  • For & About Children by Perry Nodelman. #103 (Winter 1984) - Documenting the Landscape / Notes on Sinclair Ross: 149 – 151. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    A Child's Anne by Deirdre Kessler [Author]
    Jelly Belly by Dennis Lee [Author] and Juan Wijngaard [Illustrator]
    The Genesis of Grove's The Adventure of Leonard Broadus: A Text and Commentary by Mary Rubio [Editor]
  • L'Enfance by P. Collet. #93 (Summer 1982) - Wilson, Laurence, Gallant, Glasco: 122 – 126. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Mademoiselle Hortense ou l'école du septième rang by Lionel Allard [Author]
    Il est bien court, le temps de cerises by Jacques Fillion [Author]
  • Deux enfances by Myriam Recurt. #84 (Spring 1980) - Psychological Fictions: Myth, Carr, Lowry: 115 – 116. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Une mémoire déchirée by Terese Renaud [Author]
    La haine entre les dents by Alice Brunel-Roche [Author]
  • Classical Canadian Poetry and the Public Muse by Norman Newton. #51 (Winter 1972) - Anna, Susanna, and Catharine: 39 – 54. Article: PDF available (single article).
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