Comments on: That’s More Like It

By: Nathalie Foy

Nathalie Foy — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:26:01 +0000

I like it so far. My next-door neighbour, Lissa Paul, wrote the chapter “Learning to be Literate.” She teaches in the Faculty of Education at Brock University.

By: Study Window

Study Window — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:22:34 +0000

I am slowly collecting as many of The Cambridge Companions as I can afford. I think they are a wonderful way of getting an overview of a subject. The Children’s Literature volume is high on my list of must haves.

By: Nathalie Foy

Nathalie Foy — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:18:36 +0000

The Believer is a magazine published by the McSweeney’s crew. It’s “creative nonfiction.” It’s intelligent and edgy, self-consciously so.

Incense indeed! Don’t they wish they could all light incense and draw the crowds away from the big box chains.

I gave in to just that urge at the Bob Miller Bookroom in Toronto the other day. I went in looking for a hardcover illustrated edition of The Hobbit and when they didn’t have one, I felt I had to buy something anyway. (The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature.)

By: Study Window

Study Window — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:49:56 +0000

This is where I admit to extreme ignorance and ask ‘What is the ‘Believer’? And, it is also where I shout ‘Yes’ when Hornby talks of feeling desperate to buy something in a small independent bookshop. I always feel that way and always come out with something, regardless of whether I really wanted it or not. Do you think there is some sort of incense that book shop owners can buy to waft round their establishments in order to effect us this way?