Sit

Children, like dogs, are often told to “sit.” But in Deborah Ellis’s new collection of 11 short stories, the kids are much too rambunctious for that. In “The Glowing Chair,” Miyuki is a 12-year-old Japanese ... Read More »

September 18, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Last Wave

By Gillian Best

There is something about the sea that calls to people. Sailors, divers, beach vacationers – to those of us who feel most at home in the salty brine of a vast expanse of water, there ... Read More »

September 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Spirited Away: Fairy Stories of Old Newfoundland

By Tom Dawe; Veselina Tomova (ill.)

In Newfoundland, fairies are dangerous. They steal babies, play wild music that forces people to dance till they drop, and lead travellers over cliffs to their deaths. Sometimes they spirit people away completely: heedless berry ... Read More »

September 14, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy

By Manjusha Pawagi

In April 2014, author and family court judge Manjusha Pawagi was diagnosed with an acute form of leukemia. Her candid and often funny new memoir covers the period from her diagnosis to her meeting, two ... Read More »

September 12, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Night Garden

By Polly Horvath

Children’s literature abounds with magical gardens: from the walled plot that Mary Lennox coaxes back to life in The Secret Garden, to the setting for a time-travelling friendship in Tom’s Midnight Garden, to Oxford’s Botanic ... Read More »

September 12, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

What’s My Superpower?

By Aviaq Johnston; Tim Mack (ill.)

Nalvana, a young Inuit girl with a big heart, has always dreamed of having a superpower. She observes the behaviour of the children with whom she goes to school and can easily identify their “superpowers.” ... Read More »

September 11, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Letters to a Prisoner

By Jacques Goldstyn; Angela Keenlyside (trans.)

One day, a girl and her father join a peaceful protest march; the demonstration turns ugly when protesters are met with a phalanx of heavily armed riot police. The girl’s father is arrested and thrown ... Read More »

September 11, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power!

By Brooke Allen (ill.); Mariko Tamaki

In 2013, comic publisher Boom! Studios started an imprint called Boom! Box – a space for experimental, creator-driven work by writers and artists from outside the mainstream industry. Their second title, Lumberjanes (2014), was a ... Read More »

September 11, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Lost in September

By Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter’s first novel, Annabel, made a deserved splash in 2010: it became a national bestseller and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a Governor General’s Literary ... Read More »

September 7, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dr. Bethune’s Children

By Xue Yiwei; Darryl Sterk (trans.)

A chance encounter in a Montreal supermarket brings back memories for the nameless narrator of Dr. Bethune’s Children, inspiring him to write a series of letters addressed to Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian communist who ... Read More »

September 7, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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