Wordwrights Canada: 7 books

A Real Farm Girl tells the story of a young city girl's adventures while visiting her grandmother's farm in the 1940s. Mary wants to prove that she can handle farm chores. She helps her Uncle Louis collect eggs from the chicken coop, milk the cows, and feed the pigs. The chores are not as easy as she...

As a writer, if you thrive on encouragement, this book is for you. From three decades of editing, teaching, and writing fiction and poetry, Ioannou knows well the thorns and honey of the literary life. When we write, we are up against the wall. Who am I? What do I feel? What do I think? Writing forces...

This compact guide shares how to master the art of reader-friendly poetry-- writing that reaches beyond confession, shrugs off literary fashion, and bypasses the esoteric and avant-garde, to put the reader first. With more than 50 rules of thumb, writers learn to select, expand, rearrange, and edit raw...

When his friend Gunnar discovers a 100 bill in a hidden valley just north of Torontos Don Valley Golf Course, Mike Steriou thinks his dream can come true: owning a genuine Explorer sleeping bag for the autumn Scout camp near Alliston, Ontario. However, a near-tragic accident for pal Tuan, unpleasant...

From volcanoes to vitamins, this book presents a wealth of factual information. It also explores past, more fanciful notions about how rocks, metals, and minerals fit into our human picture. In its pages, knowledge and imagination meet. Part I introduces a little basic geology. Part II focuses on...

In this revised and expanded digital edition, Ioannou looks at the long journey of mothering. The poems move from anticipation, and sorrow for loss before birth, through the tender baby years, the humour, bustle, and worry of childhood, to the stresses of adolescence, and the mixed emotions of an...

Written in a rich variety of voices, these colourful narratives aim to entertain. They begin with a little girls weekend in an artists home, then shiver from a Giant-Ladys wintry farm, to summer dining in a mansion and a boys exotic lunches on a neighbours porch. A university student delights in her...