In January 1993, Denise Davy met a woman whose brief acquaintance would shape the next two-and-a-half decades of her life. Davy, then a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator, was spending the night at a shelter ... Read More »
Recitations are a centuries-old oral storytelling tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador – tall tales and unknown histories connecting community and place, past and present. In Kimmy & Mike, author, storyteller, and former pilot Dave Paddon ... Read More »
February 11, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
In his beloved Hat Trilogy, Jon Klassen won young readers over by making them feel like insiders: they always knew more than his flawed animal characters did. The bear in I Want My Hat Back, ... Read More »
February 8, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
The debut novel by Brampton, Ontario, author Jael Richardson – founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity and author of the memoir The Stone Thrower – is an outstanding and fearless story that follows a ... Read More »
February 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
A YA novel about gentrification might sound as sexy as a YA novel about urban planning. Yet the political is effectively intertwined with the personal in Louisa Onomé’s debut novel. Chinelo and Kate are best ... Read More »
February 4, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Pasha Malla’s third novel opens with a love letter in which the unnamed narrator expresses his undying affection for the “remarkable institution” that is the local mall. He is applying for a residency program at ... Read More »
February 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Malmuria Grant-Patel has come to rural Nova Scotia to investigate the mystery of Mercy Lake. A podcaster and short-story writer, Mal believes that if she is able to get to the bottom of what happened ... Read More »
February 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Tawhida Tanya Evanson’s first novel is a stunning testament to how the grief of heartbreak can bring us back to who we are. At the core of the story, the protagonist Maya yearns for her ... Read More »
February 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
With a very unusual follow-up season now in the books, there is something even more nostalgic and moving about reliving the Toronto Raptors’ unlikely path to championship glory. In We the North, the Toronto Star’s ... Read More »
January 28, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help
In the new middle-grade novel My Best Friend Is Extinct, a lonely 10-year-old boy discovers a wounded, bear-like creature living in the snow and must nurse it back to health while facing bullies and sabre-toothed ... Read More »
January 28, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
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