When the Toronto Star’s Deirdre Baker asked students in her Children’s Lit classes at U of T to name the literary girls who most influenced them not one of them mentioned Lewis Carroll’s Alice or her natural sense of curiousity, sound sensibility, and impressive ability to live completely in the moment. Nada. A.S. Byatt knows better.
While getting your hands on a Sydney Crosby trading card may prove to be elusive, you can collect the complete set of local hero Andrew Kaufman’s All My Friends Are Superheroes cards here. And speaking of superheroes, it looks like Batman won out over Superman in collectible supremacy.
The hockey arena isn’t the only place Canada and the U.S. have a strong sense of place; John Douglas Marshall looks at three — one Canadian, two Yank— books that he thinks should be on everyone’s “must read” list.
And finally, a March Hare of a different sort.
