Somewhere in the universe, there is the perfect tune for you. If the right song finds you at the right moment, it can really shape the person you become, especially if you're in an impressionable ...

Maclear (Stray Love), a Canadian novelist and children’s author, constructs a literary jewel box into which she places a year’s worth of ramblings collected while urban birding with a Toronto musician ...

Artist Gyo Fujikawa, who died in 1998 at the age of 90, gave U.S. children’s publishing a quiet jolt in the segregated 1960s by drawing babies of different races playing together on the same page.

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Narrow in its focus but broad in its scope, Birds Art Life Death is magical. Kyo Maclear recounts a difficult year transformed by the patience and stillness brought by a new and peculiar hobby: urban ...

Kyo Maclear was at a loss for words. Her father had suffered two strokes, and when she was far enough away from the pressures of care-giving and grim realities of the hospital to find the occasion to ...

A creative writing professor at the University of Guelph is the recipient of a Governor General’s Literary Award. Kyo Maclear wrote a memoir, published this year, about a family secret revealed by a ...

“A little bit Charlie Brown, a little bit Peppermint Patty, a little bit Linus.” That’s how author Kyo Maclear, an avowed Charles M. Schulz fan, describes her picture-book writing style. And it’s an ...

What happens when you discover that the story of who you are and where you come from is completely different from the one you were told your entire life? That’s the explosive premise at the heart of ...

The Writers’ Trust of Canada has named the shortlist for the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction, the country’s richest literary award for the genre. The shortlisted titles include ...

Author Kyo Maclear writes about the same issues from two perspectives: the 41-year-old she is now and the child she was. In fact, Maclear, the daughter of CBC foreign correspondent Michael Maclear and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When you think of nature writing you imagine a book describing a remote stretch of the Tasmanian forest ...