BOOK REVIEWS

Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

Jamaica’s former poet laureate and Queen’s Gold Medal recipient Lorna Goodison is a deeply established writer who has published 15 poetry collections, a number of short story collections, and a memoir. Redemption Ground, a collection ... Read More »

June 7, 2023 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey Through Mental Health

By Jason Schreurs

Can unconstrained caterwauling, deafening decibels, and a thoroughly nonconformist ethos provide a balm to soothe psychological woes? The answer is an emphatic yes, says Jason Schreurs, a long-time music journalist and lifelong punk rock ... Read More »

June 7, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Health & Self-help, Reviews

Grounded

By Aisha Saeed; Huda Al-Marashi; Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow; S.K. Ali

Grounded takes off from the (fictional) American Zora Neale Hurston airport, where 11-year-old Hanna Chen, an outspoken animal rights activist – and member of the Animal Allies online forum – is determinedly wandering through the ... Read More »

June 7, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

City of Neighbors

By Andrea Curtis and Katy Dockrill (ill.)

City of Neighbors, the latest title in the ThinkCities series, celebrates city living, with a focus on urban neighbourhoods and neighbourly connections. This illustrated nonfiction book envelops readers in the sights, tastes, smells, and sounds ... Read More »

June 5, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Morning Bell Brings the Broken Hearted

By Jennifer Manuel

Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float, told the story of a white nurse who spends 40 years serving a remote First Nations community in northwestern B.C. That book, which won ... Read More »

May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Best Way to Get Your Way

By Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Chanelle Nibbelink (ill.)

The Best Way to Get Your Way by Vancouver author Tanya Lloyd Kyi is a rousing introduction to the art of debate and offers a crash course in critical thinking. Pairs of fictional tween speakers ... Read More »

May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

The Most Beautiful Thing I Have Ever Seen

By Nadia Devi Umadat and Christine Wei (ill.)

A little girl moves from her war-torn home country, location unnamed, to live in a place she’s never been before. After arriving, the girl, her mother, and her sister all adjust to life in a ... Read More »

May 29, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest

By Amanda Lewis

When Amanda Lewis, a burnt-out book editor, and “completionist,” set out to visit all the Champion trees in British Columbia, she was also tracking something lost during a “difficult” relationship with her goal-and-checklist life. Academic ... Read More »

May 24, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment

The Secret Pocket

By Peggy Janicki and Carrielynn Victor (ill.)

With her ‘Utsoo (grandmother), ‘Utsiyan (grandfather), and other family members, Mary reminisces about the wonderful times in her early childhood of feeling loved and cherished. This was before she, along with her sister and her ... Read More »

May 24, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Care and Keeping of Grandmas

By Jennifer Mook-Sang and Yong Ling Kang (ill.)

After decades of decline, multi-generational households are on the rise in North America. In part the result of the crazily high cost of living, this trend, in Canada at least, is also due to an ... Read More »

May 17, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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