★ The Princess and the Pony

It would be easy to assume, based on this book’s title, that it is nothing more than another bit of inconsequential fluff designed to sate the bottomless appetites of six-year-old girls for all things princess-ified ... Read More »

July 2, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Indivisible Heart

By Patrick Roscoe

The prose is plenty purple in Patrick Roscoe’s The Indivisible Heart, which is just how the author and his diegetic mouthpiece want it. But it would be a mistake to suggest that the protagonist of ... Read More »

June 29, 2015

A Serious Call

By Don Coles

In the opening paragraph of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1729), from which Don Coles has drawn the title of his new poetry collection, William Law writes that “Devotion signifies a ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Unflattening

By Nick Sousanis

Can comics inspire the next leap in the way we think about physics, philosophy, or even our everyday lives? That is the question at the heart of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening, an extended graphic essay designed ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

What You Need

By Andrew Forbes

In his debut collection of short fiction, Ontario-based writer Andrew Forbes examines the delicate yet intricate nature of humanity. He does this by looking at the impact decisions or circumstances can have on individuals and ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ A Sense of the Infinite

By Hilary T. Smith

Hilary T. Smith’s path to publication is a kind of cyber-fairytale. Working as an unpaid intern in the publishing industry and needing to make the rent, she started an anonymous blog called “Intern.” Written in ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

War In My Town

By E. Graziani

War in My Town is a departure for Ontario teacher E. Graziani. Her first book, Alice of the Rocks, was a fantasy-romance, while her latest is non-fiction: part memoir, part family narrative, and part history. ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Tru Detective

By Norah McClintock; Steven P. Hughes (illus.)

Truman Tucker, the protagonist of the new graphic novel from Norah McClintock and illustrator Steven P. Hughes, is in high school. With his parents out of town, he makes tentative plans to have his girlfriend, ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Mosquito Brothers

By Griffin Ondaatje; Erica Salcedo (illus.)

Griffin Ondaatje’s tale about a timid young motorcycle-jacket-clad mosquito named Dinnn is a light and entertaining allegory about overcoming fear, being true to yourself, and finding your wings. The youngest of a brood of 400 ... Read More »

June 24, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Forever Julia

By Jodi Carmichael

Julia Collins does not want to have sex with her boyfriend, Jeremy. Not yet. At 16, she doesn’t feel ready and she has a lot of other things going on in her life. Her father ... Read More »

June 24, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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