Best Selling Books by William Toye

A regional introduction to 121 authors and their books, covering the Maritimes (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island), Newfoundland, Quebec and Ontario up to and including Michael Ondaatje (among Ontario writers who began publishing in the 1960s). Toye''s retirement speech, given at the end of his career at the Oxford University Press, is the addendum.

Describes the three voyages to the New World made by a sixteenth-century French navigator.

Relates how an Indian tribe is punished for its wasteful slaughter and cruel treatment of the mountain goats of Temlaham.

For use with Oxford companion to Canadian history and literature by Norah Story.

A group of teenage boys plan an escape when they realize their imprisonment is part of an experiment to repattern their personalities.

When an old man''s sight is restored by Loon, he gives the bird his precious shell necklace as a reward.

A Canadian fairy-tale in pictures by Frank Newfeld.