Wow. Just wow. I’m not sure if that’s enough of a statement for a review, but those were my thoughts when I finished Don Gutteridge’s book, Lily’s Story. The beautifully wrought historical epic follows our protagonist, Lily, as she traverses through life, from her childhood...

In author Don Gutteridge's seventh and final book set in Lambton County, How the World Began: A Parable of 1812, the reader is again brought along for a joyous adventuresome ride in a setting that for many has become a familiar and welcome place. Follow...

There are many times in one’s life that the world might seem to spin around in poetic eloquence. A simple view of summer with the rising and setting sun, childhood play in the great outdoors, the undeniable magic of believing in Santa – these are...

Don Gutteridge’s Constable Garrett and the Dead Ringer is one of those books that grabs readers’ attention and pulls them in to the point that they feel helpless, unable to leave the story or the characters behind, a well-crafted blend of crime, investigation, and mystery....

A part of me wants to say that Stubborn Pilgrimage: Resistance and Change in Ontario English Teaching by Dan Gutteridge is a book for English teachers by an English teacher, but that might be a little misleading. Stubborn Pilgrimage makes fascinating and informative reading for...

The Way It Was is a collection of poems written by Don Gutteridge. This collection is divided into three parts: Back Then, Present Tense and Miscellany. The first part is a celebration of his early years as a boy growing up in Point Edward, Ontario,...

Summer's Idyll is a coming of age novel written by Don Gutteridge. Summer stretched out endlessly before him and his friends; it was only the first week, but Junior still remembered the last day of classes. He could feel the classroom seem to diminish somehow...

Special family connections. The simplicity of treasured family moments: “Curled on Grandpa’s lap,/ while he spins the tale/ on the Three Bears…” Childhood memories like a visit to the zoo or flying homemade kites: “we feel its every torque/ and tug through the taut tether,/...

In an absolutely fantastic work of historical fiction, author Don Gutteridge has provided his readers with a wonderful read in Bewilderment. Set in the time of the Great Depression, we follow our protagonist, Gabe Goodfellow. A coal miner in Point Edward, Ontario, he takes the...

Don Gutteridge has done it again! In a wonderful follow up to Summer's Idyll, the book that first introduced his readers to protagonist "Billy" or "Junior," this second work, Winter's Descent, continues this lovely story and will certainly keep readers enthralled from beginning to end....