★ Butterfly Park

Owen Sound, Ontario, artist and author Elly MacKay caught our eye with her debut picture book, If You Hold a Seed (Running Press Kids/PGC) in 2013. Since then, MacKay has kept busy, releasing her second ... Read More »

May 5, 2015 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Harmless

By James Grainger

“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon.” Dr. Seuss’s quip might well serve as an epigraph for James Grainger’s superb debut novel. This taut, timely tale keenly dissects the ... Read More »

May 4, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Outstanding in the Rain: A Whole Story With Holes

By Frank Viva

Every actor, the cliché goes, wants to direct. And if an actor becomes famous and powerful enough, chances are that desire will be fulfilled – whether or not talent in front of the camera translates ... Read More »

April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Drive: A Look at Roadside Opposites

By Kellen Hatanaka

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Red Jacket

By Pamela Mordecai

The first novel from Jamaican-born poet, short-story writer, and scholar Pamela Mordecai is a deliberately paced, trenchant story of one woman’s coming of age on the fictional Caribbean island of St. Chris, and her difficult ... Read More »

April 27, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where Did You Sleep Last Night

By Lynn Crosbie

In November of 1993, six months before his death, Kurt Cobain performed a searing cover of Lead Belly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” during an acoustic show for MTV in New York. Perched delicately ... Read More »

April 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Connecting Dots

By Sharon Jennings

As a character, the foster child has powerful potential in fiction, combining 19th-century orphan tropes with contemporary neglected-child realism. Notable foster children in books include the iconic Galadriel in Katherine Paterson’s The Great Gilly Hopkins ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Merit Birds

By Kelley Powell

If you’re looking for a book about understanding and acceptance, about a character developing a burgeoning sense of cross-cultural commonality, The Merit Birds by Ottawa author Kelley Powell is not it. When his mother applies ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Prison Boy

By Sharon E. McKay

Set in the slums of an unnamed country, Sharon E. McKay’s latest book tells of Pax, a young boy who lives in a downtrodden orphanage run by a formidable Englishwoman named Bell. Though they don’t ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ghost Most Foul

By Patti Grayson

Manitoba author Patti Grayson (Core Samples; Autumn, One Spring) makes her children’s book debut with Ghost Most Foul, which focuses on Grade 8 basketball star Summer Widden. Shortly after being named captain of her team, ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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