Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

Despite a recent change in government and the widespread “Canada is back” rhetoric accompanying it, Canucks travelling abroad may still choose to keep the maple leaf decal off their backpacks after reading this stinging indictment ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Once in a Town Called Moth

By Trilby Kent

A novel about a 14-year-old girl plucked from her strict Mennonite colony in the Bolivian jungle and plunked into a new life in downtown Toronto could easily overplay its hand and make an easy meal ... Read More »

August 15, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Hidden Keys

By André Alexis

André Alexis’s new novel – Book 3 in a projected five-book sequence – takes place in a Toronto that will be instantly recognizable to anybody who has walked the same streets and slumped in the ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

King Baby

By Kate Beaton

Canadian cartooning superstar Kate Beaton follows up her stellar kidlit debut, The Princess and the Pony, with the story of a demanding infant who holds court over his entire family. The narration is delivered in ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Wonder

By Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue’s latest novel thrusts us back into a small, claustrophobic room. Inside is a child, and once again, the child’s life is in danger. An intense drama unfolds. You are never sure how it ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Squiggly Story

By Andrew Larsen; Mike Lowery (ill.)

A young wannabe author is coached by his more literate big sis to “Write what you KNOW.” The little guy knows his letters, but not many words, so he starts his story with a capital ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Three Years with the Rat

By Jay Hosking

Jay Hosking has an interesting CV for a novelist, with both a PhD in neuroscience and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Given this hybrid background it’s perhaps not surprising ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Griffin of Darkwood

By Becky Citra

The Griffin of Darkwood is an exciting, fanciful story filled with magical phenomena and gothic horror. Will Poppy loves to write stories, but when his mother dies, leaving him an orphan, he bitterly vows never ... Read More »

August 3, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ We Found a Hat

By Jon Klassen

It would be difficult to find a person possessed of even the slightest interest in children’s books published during the past decade who isn’t familiar with Jon Klassen. His two Hat books (2011’s I Want ... Read More »

August 3, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Waiting for the Cyclone

By Leesa Dean

According to the publisher’s copy accompanying Leesa Dean’s debut story collection, “women [in fiction] are too often cast as inherently good.” It goes on to caution that the “perfectly imperfect” women within these pages “don’t ... Read More »

August 2, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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